The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.