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

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.

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.

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.

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.