I have this new theory. Well, new for me at least.
Nobody makes anything new. It may seem new, but its really just something old that was copied, then to get far enough away from the old version to seem new, the artist copies themselves, over and over again. It gets so far from the inspiration/copied work that it seems new, and might as well be new, but its not.

I guess this is important because it allows at creative person (me) to stop trying to do something new. Its not nessecary to tear your hair out try to avoid pre-existing ideas.

Epiphany goddness