‘DA GONZ’
“If you can be not afraid to be laughed at, you could do so many things.”
“Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they’ll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it.”
“If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you’ll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.”
“I think that things are poetic when they don’t have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.”
“It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality.”
“You can’t just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.”
“So I don’t know about the Olympics. Skateboarding is not an answer – it’s a question, a game of logic and death. It’s sad, but there is a very dark side to skateboarding – there is a side of the board that never sees the light [laughs]. I’m being silly, but also serious.”
Book about Skateboarder & Artist Mark Gonzales