 These include Leonardo da Vinci, whom Rubik regards as "the" Renaissance man; Michelangelo, whom he respects as a polymath, painter, and sculptor; and artist M.C.Escher, who drew impossible constructions and grappled with explorations of infinity.As regards to philosophers and writers, Rubik admires Voltaire, Stendhal, Thomas Mann, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hungarian poet Attila József, Jules Verne, and Isaac Asimov.