Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

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.

First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.

There is no news industry.

You’ve got to guess at worst cases: No model will tell you that. My rule of thumb is double the worst that you have ever seen.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

I don't run around feeling infused with positivity, but I'll have to be taking my last breath before I'll admit I'm dying. So I'm either optimistic or in denial.

Lift up your eyes discouraged one

It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.

God must be very great to have created a world that leaves a mystery as to whether he created it.

Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.