When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
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 influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very young age, but also by the Warner Bros. cartoons, 'Tom and Jerry,' and of course Disney. And also by Fellini's 'Giulietta of the Spirits' and Kurosawa's 'Ran.' And by other American illustrators and painters.
I was raised to be some kind of artist.
For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don't do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you.
My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me.
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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