Charlie Rose: Harold Bloom, then Chuck Jones

It is certainly clear why Brandl likes Bloom, and Chuck Jones of course!. Jones is apparently more well-read than most fine artists now.
I thought I'd add some info about Bloom for others.

As Bloom's theory developed, it proved as opposed to the tenets of Deconstruction as his earlier criticism had been to the doctrines of New Criticism. While Paul de Man and other Deconstructionists emphasized the instability of linguistic meaning and the contradictions of conceptual thought, Bloom continued to champion the imagination's autonomy from language, both literary and philosophic. To Bloom's thinking, literature is not the mind's play among unstable signs but the complete human's struggle for originality. And this battle is waged not against Deconstruction's atemporal linguistic structures but against the limits of the human condition as they are enforced by the full weight of past cultural achievements.

In response to the previous comment and, in turn, to the Charlie Rose interview, yes, Chuck was more well-read than most fine artists. In fact, I would venture to say that he was possibly in the highest echelons of voracious readers in history. Not only could he pull a quote from Twain, Maugham, or O Henry, he was the ultimate fan of eloquent prose.

In fact, he used to play a game with his daughter, Linda, when she was young that entailed her selecting any book from their vast library (consisting of thousands of volumes) throughout the house and bring it back to him and he would recite the first line from the book from memory. She says that "he never missed."

He credits his passion for reading with inspiring him to create many of his world famous characters such as Wile E. Coyote, Pepe le Pew, and Michigan J. Frog as well as his ability to create his masterful fine art too.