Eli5: why is it so hard for people to make art if they’ve never seen any art before?

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This is hard to explain but if you don’t have any experience or influence with art, and your kind of a blank slate, why is it so impossible to have any ideas about art? If you’ve never seen something before why can’t you have an idea about what it is?

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Art is a lot like philosophy, or any field really: there is a context and a conversation going on. It’s not happening in a vacuum. Imagine walking into a room and knowing exactly what would make everyone drop what they’re doing and listen. That’s what savants are like. There’s a reason it’s incredible.

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