The question

Which writers or artists most influenced your work?

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The Paris Review, to novelists and poets, The Art of Fiction

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Frank O. Gehry

Architect; winner of the 1989 Pritzker Prize

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I spent time with Rauschenberg a lot during the combine period. I think just around the combine period. He had a big influence on me because he was very free and not full of philosophy and why I’m doing this and that. Some of the artists had this anchor of having to be — relate sometimes to Hegel and Kant and Nietzsche. It was sort of baggage that they brought to the table that was irrelevant. I mean it was in their head and it was relevant, but it was irrelevant to this moment of truth. So I found the artists that were kind of “dumb smart,” that were really smart but didn’t parade it, that were willing to take the risks and stuff.

Academy of Achievement interview, Los Angeles, California, 27 September 2016 source ↗

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Alain de Botton Writer and philosopher; founder of The School of Life
Norman Mailer, Geoff Dyer and Roland Barthes. I'm interested in writing that takes in the great questions. I'm curious as to whether you can be profound in the course of reporting the incidents of everyday life.
Recorded Charlotte Philby, My secret life, The Independent, 1 May 2009 source ↗
Gertrude B. Elion Biochemist and pharmacologist; Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine
It was a very important finding for us because we were involved in nucleic acids. There weren’t many people interested in nucleic acids. There weren’t many people who believed that was the way to find drugs. But when we found out the structure, and we began to understand what kind of bases could be incorporated, and which ones couldn’t, and where they could be incorporated, it put a whole new dimension on it. So it had a very significant effect.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, San Francisco, California, 6 March 1991 source ↗
Jia Tolentino Writer
I wrote while listening to Caribou, Kamasi Washington, Frank Ocean, Mitski. Towards the end, a lot of Talk Talk.
Recorded Thora Siemsen, interview, Bookforum, 26 August 2019 source ↗

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