Jean-Michel Basquiat — I like almost everything but especially — In Italian, Nu Nile, The Dingoes That Park Their Brains With Their Gum, Per Capita, Untitled (Magic Worms) & Untitled (Ter Borch)
Willem De Kooning — I especially like the period 1957 — 1963 including Ruth’s Zowie, September Morn, Door To The River & Spike’s Folly II
Cy Twombly — The Coronation of Sesostris & The Four Seasons
Julian Schnabel — I really like Works On Paper & Palazzo Chupi. Basquiat (The movie)
Georg Baselitz - A focus on the 1980s - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London
Rose Wylie
John Fekner
Louise Bourgeois
Paul Klee
Mark Rothko
Gilbert & George
Joseph Beuys
William Blake
Andy Goldsworthy
Ibrahim Hussein
Wladyslaw Hasior
Billy Childish
Vincent Van Gogh
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Outsider art
Abstract Expressionism
Neo Expressionism
German Expressionism
London (especially Brick Lane & Truman Brewery area), New York City (especially SoHo, Great Jones Street & the East/West Village), Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Zakopane, The Isle Of Skye, Edinburgh, Marrakech, Zagorsk, Miami Beach, Langkawi, Barcelona, Dublin, Palma Mallorca, Ho Chi Minh City, Ha Noi & Hué, Vietnam, Copenhagen, Riga & Valletta.
William Shakespeare
George Orwell
Samuel Beckett
T.S. Eliot
Allen Ginsberg
David Bowie (everything except Never Let Me Down!)
Iggy Pop — especially The Idiot & Lust For Life
Patti Smith — especially, Horses and her photography, writing/poetry
Brian Eno — On Land, Discreet Music, Shutov Assembly, Apollo
Stereo Total
The Clash
Nick Cave
Joy Division
Chopin, Nocturnes & Impromptus
Mark Lanegan, Bubblegum
Philip Glass (especially Glassworks & Hydrogen Jukebox)
Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Jutta Hipp
David Sylvian
The B52's (1st 2 albums)
Tord Gustavsen
Richard Hawley
The Kills
Lulu Rouge, Bless You
Tate Modern, The Noguchi Museum, MoMA, Arken, Denmarm, Dia:Beacon, Stormking, National Galleries of Scotland, Gagosian
The ocean, rivers, streams, trees, silence & Frost, clouds & sky
Red wine, Guinness, Samuel Smith's Taddy Porter, Auchentoshan Malt Whisky
Every Jim Jarmusch Film
George Best
Charlotte Rampling
Most Woody Allen films
Oil paint sticks
Acrylic paint
Oil paint sticks
Pearl Paint, NYC (now sadly gone)
Atlantis Art Materials & L. Cornelissen & Son, London
The industrial landscape of Sheffield in the 60s & 70s
Weston Park Museum
West Street
Rare & Racy
The Crucible Theatre
The Limit Club
Hawksmoor churches — Christ Church Spitalfields & St Mary Woolnoth in particular
Lomo Photographs
Peter Lindbergh photography
Vivian Maier
Vivienne Westwood, Agnes B
Islamic Calligraphy
Josef Müller - Brockmann
Blue Note & ECM album cover design
Most things and remember everyone dies but not everyone lives . . .