I feel a great closeness to Goya, Francis Bacon, James Ensor, Marc Rothko, Malevich, Duchamp, Mayakowski, Matthias Gruenewald, Max Beckmann, Munch, Caravaggio, Artaud, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Bruegel, McCay, Bosch, Rockwell, Mishima, Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) as photographer as well as writer.
In contemporary art: Kiefer, Tansey, Rauch, Richter (especially his “October 18, 1977”), Sherman, Close, Witkin, Guston, Boltanski, Crumb.