Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening within this box of a ramp.

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.

The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

A kind ‘no’ from the heart is better than a deceitful ‘yes’ from the tongue.

“Your Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that.”“Exactly, ” she agreed.

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

I just love the gifts you bring me for lunch. Other girls get diamonds. Me? I get mayhem and blood – and all before noon. Thanks, Tate. (Simone)

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.