Although some of Debussy's contemporaries drew analogies between "La mer" and French Impressionist paintings – much to the composer's irritation – others have detected the influence of his admiration for the English painter J. M. W. Turner; and Debussy's choice of Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" for the cover of the printed score indicates the influence of Japanese art on him. Despite Debussy's scorn for the term "impressionism" applied to his or anyone else's music – a matter on which he and Ravel were of the same firm opinion – the term was used by some of his most devoted admirers. His biographer Edward Lockspeiser called "La mer" "the greatest example of an orchestral Impressionist work", and more recently in "The Cambridge Companion to Debussy" Nigel Simeone commented, "It does not seem unduly far-fetched to see a parallel in Monet's seascapes".