Famous Figures
Historical and fictional figures mapped to the sixteen values.
Leonardo da Vinci
His notebooks, moving freely among anatomy, botany, engineering, music, and painting, reflect a Growth orientation in which curiosity across the widest possible range of domains is itself the organising principle.
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His repeated reinventions of what Disney could be, from short animations to feature films to theme parks to television, reflect a Growth orientation in which the creative domain is always expandable and the current form is always provisional.
Explore Growth →Käthe Kollwitz
Kollwitz spent her career documenting working-class suffering - the Weavers' Revolt, the widows of World War I, the grief of mothers - in prints and sculpture that she described as her obligation. The death of her son in the war did not change her commitment; it deepened it.
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