“Good artists copy, Great artists steal” means you may not be the first to try something, but you did it so well that everyone thinks of you when they see that style. Like Picasso, Monet, Van Gogh…they may have started out copying someone else, but in the end they completely stole it. When someone becomes “great” that style is now so closely associated with them that when anyone sees it they will assume its from them.
Very few things are 100% original. And, nowadays, those few things generally cause more confusion than interest. One example I can think of off the top of my head was "Voice of Fire" by American painter Barnett Newman in 1967. The painting was purcahsed by the National Gallery of Canada in 1989 at a cost of $1.8 million and caused great controversy at the time. When I lived in Ottawa, we visited the gallery often. I remember standing in front of the painting and staring at it for at least 10 minutes but couldn't figure it out, other than it looked like a flag of some sort. 
Actually I always love art from a very young age and started drawing seriously just before the onset of the Covid pandemic. I am, of course, not an artist, but I enjoyed drawing very much, especially if an image moved me, like this photo of then German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
My drawing, started from the eyes
Finished drawing (40cm x 50cm)
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