TANO IS A PAINTER AND STREET ARTIST

INFLUENCES
The people that influenced me are Jiddu Krishnamurti, Terence McKenna, Heraclitus and Lao Tzu. My favourite pastime is wandering around in bookshops and libraries. I see a book as a part of someone’s life. Books are treasures of a person’s consciousness, thoughts, studies, worries and struggles. There is something romantic and mystical in the thought that a stranger, someone from another place and very often from another age, put his thoughts down on paper for us. I think of books, this evolving ark of human thoughts, feelings and imagination and I feel grateful. This is true wealth. This is how and we evolve as a species. I believe that my readings have shaped me more than anything else. I think of the writers as fellow travellers. They walk beside me as I grow older. It is a warm feeling. A positive feeling. We are shaped by the lives of our ancestors of all cultures and races. From the depths of history up to our contemporaries. We have our own part in all this. We are the ancestors of the future generations and this is our opportunity and responsibility to leave behind the best part of us.