Biggest Big Name Influences:
Frida Kahlo:
For teaching me I can contribute despite my illness
Friedensreich Hundertwasser:
For teaching me to fight for peace and express myself radically
Pablo Picasso:
For teaching me to express myself in as many ways as possible
Caspar David Friedrich:
For teaching me to see beauty in nature
Vincent van Gogh:
For teaching me to work hard despite no Earthly reward
Annie Leibovitz:
For teaching me how beautiful photography can be
Steve McCurry:
For teaching me to explore the other
Joel Meyerowitz:
For teaching me to see the beauty in everyday life
Snorri Sturluson:
For teaching me about our heritage and openness of the spiritual mind
Gene Roddenberry:
For teaching me that a better tomorrow will come
William Shakespeare:
For teaching me to radically express love
Brothers Grimm:
For teaching me that escape fiction is potentially dangerous and beautiful
Patrick Stewart:
For teaching me morals through his depiction of Picard
Brent Spiner:
For teaching me to see the beautiful in the other through the depiction of Data
Leonard Nimoy:
For teaching me to embrace more than one world
John de Lancie:
For teaching me to think without constraint
Neil Gaiman:
For teaching me to appreciate my own thoughts despite what doctrine mandates
Douglas Adams:
For teaching me about the absurdity and beauty of comedy
Franz Kafka:
For teaching me to see what it is like to be opressed by the state
Antonio Vivaldi:
For teaching me about thematically paired music and beauty in music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
For teaching me about Genius
Ludwig van Beethoven:
For teaching me about alienation from a corrupt elite and about opportunism
John Winston Ono Lennon:
For teaching me of the poetry in music and to be true to myself despite the danger
Nena:
For teaching me to love myself despite loss
Chipzel:
For teaching me to remember my child self
Martin Luther King Jr.:
For teaching me about the true meaning of justice
Vladimir Lenin:
For teaching me never to think yourself better than others
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin:
For teaching me to be humble despite great power
Mao Zedong:
For being disciplined when it comes to doing revolutionary work
Friedrich Engels:
For teaching me to rise above petty narratives and embrace materialist analysys of human societies
Karl Marx:
For giving me hope that we can indeed create a better world
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