[JKCalhoun]

"I'm not sure why it's such a popular narrative that all art is just some kind of recombination of existing things; it's not."

I would like to see art that was "created in a vacuum" so to speak. I am not aware of any. A first time poet who had never read any poetry or prose or heard a tale told? A painter who had been blind since birth and just handed a canvas, oils?

(To be pedantic, the person you quoted said art was recombining their experiences which you took as existing things.)