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.

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.

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.

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

If life didn’t give you at least one person not wanting you to succeed then half of us would lose are motivation to climb that cliff, in order to prove them wrong.

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

I was into alternative stuff, but I was also open to a little bit of hard rock and metal, like Guns N' Roses, Metallica.

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.

Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.

Your self image is so powerful it unwittingly becomes your destiny.

End is a gloomy word.

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.