Information and inspiration are everywhere... history art architecture everything an illustrator needs. Europe is after all the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
If we get the capabilities NATO along with the European Union can do amazing things.
In fact it is amazing how much European films - Italian French German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
France and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.
European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.