When I was growing up, my heroes were people like Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Michael Jackson.

I mean just think of the sheer variety a baby's face, Berlioz's Harold in Italy, movies like The Wizard of Oz or the plays of Chekhov, a central California landscape, a Hokusai view of Mt. Fuji, Der Rosenkavalier, a stunning match winning goal in a World Cup soccer match, Van Gogh's Starry Night, a Jane Austen novel, Fred Astaire dancing across the screen.