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When learning from masters feels like creative theft

I copy other artists' techniques to learn but then I worry that my own work is just stealing and I do not know where influence ends and originality begins

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The necessary process of creative apprenticeship conflicts with contemporary expectations of originality.

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