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There is always one or a few artists who appeal to all sort of people, and, of course, I want to be one of those people.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.

So many artists try to be something that they're not.

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.

I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

I think people are intolerant of artists.

I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.