Your logic is flawed. &quot;Artist A did X before doing Y, therefore X is necessary to do Y&quot;. It doesn&#x27;t compute.<p>I&#x27;ve heard great painters say that the only thing that matters is that you paint. Plenty of wonderful painters did not study their predecessors in depth.<p>I&#x27;m assuming that your 99% number is fabricated? Incidentally 99% of statistics are made up.