I have come across individuals in books, art, performance, records, film, and occasionally in person, who have had a great impact on my thoughts and life. These people or groups of people have created objects, idea, or processes that have deep meaning embodied in innovative form, and have executed them with virtuosity. At some point I have half-jokingly referred to each of them as “one of my heroes,” but I’ve always shied away from setting them down. The list changes over months and years. With luck exposing them in such a flexible medium will keep the list from becoming calcified (and with it my outlook and focus). Art     Paul Cezanne     Arshille Gorky     Richard Diebenkorn     Roberto Matta     Eva Hesse     Alberto Giacometti Design     William Morris     Charles Rennie Mackintosh     Juste Aurele Meissonier Performance     Trisha Brown Music     Thelonious Monk     Anton Webern     Kruder and Dorfmeister     Nine Inch Nails     Bela Bartok     Bach Film     Stanley Kubrick     Roman Polanski     Alain Resnais     Jane Aaron     Hollis Frampton     Ernie Gehr     Al Jarnow     Alfred Hitchcock Philosophy     Lao Tsu     Ludwig Wittgenstein     Friedrich Nietsche Literature     Samuel Beckett     Julio Cortazar     Thomas Pynchon     Alain Robbe-Grillet     Marcel Proust Science/Natural Science     Michael S. Gazanniga     Stephen Jay Gould