If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.

I greatly admired him as a teacher I didn't teach the same way as Josef Albers at all.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.