He uses several quotes from someone called 'Mark Twain'.
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one"
Mark Twain was actually his pen name, his real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he was an american author and humorist.
Tyler also speaks about Hudson River School Painters. He mentions how they use pools of light to lead the viewers eye around the painting and that he likes to use this method in his own work.
The Hudson Riverschool was a mid 19th century art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whos vision was influenced by romanticism.
I also found out that the artist gathered there visual data for the paintings by traveling to extraordinary and extreme environments, the likes of which would not permit the act of painting. During these trips sketches and memories would be collected and paintings would be rendered later.
Comparing this to H.R Giger whos art style is very different, he does a lot of oil paintings and air brushing. His influences consist of painters such as Ernst Fuchs and Salvador Dali.
