Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

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.

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

Only through the conversion of time can territories be conquered.

Happiness is happiness.

A business plan is like a war plan, when you competitors know about it, it's no longer of any use

It is better to think of all the beauties of life than to be bitter.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.