Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.

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.

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

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

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

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.