Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Edmund Tarbell, the art of the Pre-Raphaelites, Wassilly Kandinsky, Alfons Mucha and the Art Nouveau style, Art Deco, Carl Larsson, every caricature by Al Hirschfeld, Eric Sloane, Gerard DuBois and many French Canadian illustrators, the genius cartoons of Jeff MacNelly, Charles Shultz, the war illustrations of Bill Mauldin, old movies, George Lucas, comic books, the seasonal and geographic diversity of New Hampshire, Maine, the ocean ... and way, way too much else too list.