There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

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.

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.

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

Achieving your goals depends more on the way you manage to push through the bad days, than shine on the good ones.

One must learn the rules so one can break them properly.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.

There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.

It's been something that has always been kind of okay with me - not in the sense that I didn't want to get better, but I always knew that I could get better.

I have a love factor with the minorities.

Frank Lampard is the best ever at Chelsea and one of the best I've ever played with and against in world football today, and I think what set him apart was his dedication and hard work.

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.