Mark Ryden I love this guy. If I had gotten my act together in college, I would have tried to learn how to paint like him. I always wanted to make things look super-realistic but at Hampshire that was practically scoffed at. Everyone wanted to look "painterly" and I failed horribly. I just couldn't free myself enough to use big blobs of expensive paint to make some image I probably wouldn't even like. Which is why I became a sculptor.

The sculptors were sexier, anyway.