"Fifteen Artists Who Have Influenced You" Meme

The RULES: Fifteen artists who have influenced you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than five minutes. Tag friends (including me, because I am interested in seeing what artists my friends choose). Quickly, and in no particular order. Go!

1. Vincent Van Gogh
2. Leo Tolstoy
3. Virginia Woolf
4. Amy Ray
5. Rene Magritte
6. Voltaire
7. Erin McKeown
8. Lucinda Williams
9. Meryl Streep
10. Leonardo Da Vinci
11. Henry David Thoreau
12. Herman Melville
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Margaret Atwood
15. John Lennon