Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

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.

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.

Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.

One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.

Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.