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SZ: "This whole thing started when I was a very young child. My parents were very encouraging."

RN: "Were you parents artists?"

SZ: "No but my Grandmother is a very fine painter. Because of her influence on my folks, they were very encouraging of me. Lorene Nickel who I mentioned is probably my most intimate example of proper way of approaching art - being thorough and taking a very comprehensive, realistic approach. You have to practice the craft until you reach a high level of professionalism.”

"For people who influenced me }>u Magdelene Odundo is an African artist. She is a fine ceramist. Her work is beautiful. I mean her pots all have very sensual curves. Clay has a sort of sensuality to it. Even the name of the parts of pot the lip, the neck, the shoulders, the foot £u it's all a sort of anthropomorphic feel."

"And Picasso, I have always loved Picasso's ceramics. A lot of people aren’t aware that Picasso was a potter. His work is fantastic. The Picasso museum in France has an entire floor dedicated to his pottery. The fact that he used his pottery as his pallet to expand on his painting repertoire is inspirational

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