Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

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.

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

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.

I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her, dedicated to 'you who will never be able to read this book'.

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

Necessity is the ethnicity of truth.

When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature