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.

We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.

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.

From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.

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.

Graffiti doesn't exist unless someone got a photo, because it's gone immediately.