When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.
I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.
Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.
Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people. 
Effective fund-raising is based on relationships. 
Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion. 
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. 
From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance. 
Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art. 