I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

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.

Hoax needed to complete the premises of truth.

There's only one job in this world that gives you an office in the sky

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not.

I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

The first priority is to make sure we have capital to continue to have capital available to put into the financial system. That's the first priority.

Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E