From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.
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I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.
I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.
I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.
Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.
I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.
When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.
I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.
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