Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

Graffiti doesn't exist unless someone got a photo, because it's gone immediately.

One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

Merry Heart And Joy Is To Maintain Your Well Being

Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what's wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.