I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

Van Gogh was impulsive.

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.

It would be difficult for me to express all my thoughts about it. It remains a constant disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome immediately. Maki

Van Gogh would have to cut his cock off to make an impression nowadays