The galleries participating this year are better, and we have new, younger French clients, and we thought it was a good thing to participate.

Probably the Saatchi show makes him even hotter, but he is very successful also without this.

The galleries participating this year are better, and we've had museum directors and collectors coming through.

All along, we thought he was a talented kid. He made some changes in technique and got better as the year went on.

Our thought was we could be proactive and not have to wait until after we got smacked. I guess that's not going to happen.

It was a crazy dream, a dream that I never really thought I would be able to realize. Oddly enough it took an art gallery in Paris to make that possible rather than the aviation industry. It really was Boy's Own stuff.