Let me go beyond that and say that obviously you're going to have something in common with someone else in the field you're dabbling in, but the best artists -- to me -- aren't faceless, they have their trademarks. Watch a Lynch or a Godard or a Herzog film; you can tell within 5 minutes of any of those what film you're watching. Look at a Francis Bacon painting or something... obviously, there's some similarities here and there, but these artists have... furthered certain techniques to establish individuality. Or something.
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