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"FacebookPinterest\n\nHe's a photographer turned artist turned businessman. And what a business he's built. Curtis Kulig turned a two word tag into a mini-empire with his Love Me art, a simple message with universal appeal, utilized for collaborations with the likes of everyone from Nike and Vans to Estee Lauder. There's even a room inside New York City's Ace Hotel that has his penmanship splashed across the back wall, and Joe Jonas recently recruited Kulig to scribe the text and cover art for his debut album \"See No More.\" Here, we caught up with Kulig at his appropriately schizophrenic SoHo loft where he revealed the artists (both past and present) that have shaped his aesthetic.\n\n\"I'm not an art critic, but these are artists that have inspired me, I guess. I enjoy looking at their works. Art is a weird thing.\" - Curtis Kulig\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nNobuyoshi Araki:\n\n\"He's the original point and shoot, and definitely a pioneer at pushing boundaries. At 70 years old, he's still shooting and still reinventing. He bridges fine art and commercial work and I think his pictures are amazing.\"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nCy Twombly:\n\n\"I love his work for his script and scribbles. I first saw his work when I was 19 and it really resonated with me. The colors, the chaotic intention and the repetition... it all felt very comforting.\"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nRobert Indiana:\n\n\"The original Love. He stacked it. He shifted our perspective. He made it off, because it is, isn't it? When something echoes the feeling we have of a word in typography, that's something that's very interesting to me.\"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nDan Flavin:\n\n\"I have always loved neon's. But his installations, they can completely shift your mood. I love his reflection pieces especially.\"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nRichard Serra:\n\n\"I mean, the shapes, it swallows you. It's bigger than you. He literally creates landmarks inside of galleries that leave you in awe. It's as if he can pull from nature, completely shift it, and it gives his pieces incredible weight.\"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nJohn Baldassari:\n\n\"For me, he is the man. Typography, collages, and photos... it all just blows my mind. He's funny, irreverent, ironic, and just a genius. The best part is that he would hate anyone using that word.\"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nDonald Baechler:\n\n\"His work is where kid-like wonder collides with complexity. The iconography is great, but it's the layers and details behind it that you can get lost in.\"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nJulian Schnabel:\n\n\"Just the sheer size and scale is amazing. They're like entire environments on canvas that kind of eat you alive. He's completely visceral, like a bear in human form. And the fact that he's been so successful as a director too is pretty remarkable.\"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nBarbara Kruger:\n\n\"It's graphic, it's gutsy, and she doesn't stray. Same type, black and white, red and white... it works and it's always recognizable. She recently made a towel that says \"Love Me\" at the bottom. Maybe it was a coincidence, but I was flattered.\"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nWalton Ford:\n\n\"His are the largest watercolors I've ever seen. They take you to another place in time. The color and detail of his Audubon-style illustrations, to me, it's total mastery.\"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nChris Burden:\n\n\"He's a wildman. His performance art in the '70s was crazy. I think his installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with the 200 street lamps is great and definitely a new signature landmark in L.A.\"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nRichard Prince:\n\n\"The joke paintings never get old to me. Some are straight and some are twisted. There's something about text based paintings that appeal to me, maybe because your eye is forced to engage for such a long time.\"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nTracey Emin:\n\n\"She's a mad woman of the best kind. I love her work because I don't think she's afraid of anything and there's a strange comfort in having that kind of vulnerability that I really admire.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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