It&#x27;s not because in the past (I mean 500 years ago) art was produced by doing something different from what existed that you should conclude that &quot;art is about being original&quot;, even less that &quot;art is revolt against what was previously done&quot;. These facts, if always true, are just consequences of another, much higher, goal of the artist.<p>It&#x27;s because modern artists started thinking that _the goal_ of art was to be original that we came to this situation.