One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

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.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

I am not the human being that you see. I am the light. In my heart, I feel dances of electromagnetic waves of love and spirit.

A positive mindset alone in the absence of hard work will get you nowhere.

I guess sometimes the past just catches up to you, whether you want it to or not.

When you arrive in China nowadays, one of the first things you note is the emphasis placed on you, a non-Chinese person, being an outsider.

The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

We all get 24 hours a day... It's up to us as to what we do with those 24 hours.