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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.