Yes, indeed! When I was eight years old. It was so clear to me then that my mother took me to the open days of art schools, and when I saw the engraving workshop of the Estienne School in Paris I thought it was amazing. I told myself that’s what I wanted to do.

There was someone in particular, the person who passed the workshop on to me, Pierre Lallier. He started at the workshop in 1962 and managed it from 1968 to 2008. In fact, all the people who ran the workshop did so for a very long time. In 200 years it changed hands just five or six times.

I would say they are the same thing. In the sense that tradition can be a driving force for extraordinary innovation. There is always a very strong link with what has gone before. The major challenge for the general public is to understand this link.

Without a doubt, it’s the act of creating. And by that I mean the research that goes into it. Behind any finished work there are failures. But when a test print comes out of the press for the first time, it’s a magic moment.