After so many centuries Arthistory has produced thousands as not millions of "artists". There is something suitable for anybody. I too have my favorites. There is of course a difference between people you admire and those whose ideas your trying to make yourself own (it's no "nicking", but more likely "quoting", or "citing"). Between those moral standards the distuingish isn't always obvious. , and Co Westerik (Search for them, they will like that!).