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Inspiration

Takashi Amano
A professional track cyclist, photographer, designer, and aquarist. His interest in aquaria led him to create the Japanese company Aqua Design Amano.
Giorgio Armani
An Italian fashion designer. He is known for his clean, tailored lines. He was the first designer to ban models with a body mass index (BMI) under 18.
Johann Sebastian Bach
A German composer of the Baroque period. His music is revered for its intellectual depth, technical command, and artistic beauty.
Janet Baker
An English mezzo-soprano. Particularly closely associated with baroque and early Italian opera and the works of Benjamin Britten.
Calculus
The mathematical study of change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape and algebra is the study of operations and their application to solving equations.
Maria Callas
An American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.
Chinese calligraphy
According to Stanley-Baker, "Calligraphy is sheer life experienced through energy in motion that is registered as traces on silk or paper, with time and rhythm in shifting space its main ingredients."
Cloud Gate Dance Theater
A modern dance group. Cloud Gate created numerous dances that evoked the unique experience of Taiwan people within the larger Chinese and Asian context.
Dream of the Red Chamber
Long considered a masterpiece of Chinese literature, it is remarkable for its precise and detailed observation of the life and social structures.
Audrey Hepburn
A British actress. Recognized as a film and fashion icon, Hepburn was active during Hollywood's Golden Age.
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
A Taiwanese director. His storytelling is elliptical and his style marked by extreme long takes with minimal camera movement but intricate choreography of actors and space within the frame.
Paul Klee
A Swiss German painter. His works reflect his dry humour and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and also his musicality
Ang Lee
A Taiwanese film director and screenwriter. His work is known for its emotional charge, which critics believe is responsible for his success in offsetting cultural barriers and achieving international recognition.
Chang-rae Lee
A Korean American novelist. His works explore issues central to the Asian American experience: the legacy of the past; the encounter of diverse cultures; the challenges of racism.
Gustav Mahler
A German composer, considered a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century.
Ricky Martin
A Puerto Rican pop musician, actor and author. He possesses a tenor vocal range. Martin cites a variety of the Latin music genres as influences, including salsa, merengue, and bolero.
The Metropolitan Opera
An opera company based in New York City. Its repertoire are presented in staged productions that range in style from those with elaborate traditional decors to others that feature modern conceptual designs.
Joan Miró
A Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist. His work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride.
Claudio Monteverdi
An Italian composer, gambist, singer and Roman Catholic priest. His work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Many of his works are acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music.
Yugo Nakamura
A Japanese web designer. Renowned for the wit and complexity of the interactive animations he creates for his personal sites.
Edward Said
A Palestinian American literary theorist, public intellectual and music critic who helped found the critical-theory field of postcolonialism.
San Mao
a Taiwanese novelist. Her work ranges from autobiographical writing, to travel writing and reflective novels, to translations of European comic books.
Franz Schubert
An Austrian composer. In a short lifespan of less than 32 years, he was a prolific composer, writing some 600 Lieder, ten symphonies, liturgical music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and solo piano music.
Scott Schuman
An American blogger and fashion photographer. In 2005, he began photographing people he saw on the street whose style he found striking. He is well known for photographing what have been described as 'real people'.
Krystian Zimerman
A Polish classical pianist who has been hailed as one of the finest living pianists.