Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint. By"Francis Bacon". ...I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens. By"Georg Baselitz". Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. By"Edgar Degas".