They are students of the medium they are using. How does this paint work? How does this instrument sound? What can I do with this camera? They are all questions that they answer as they create. Like the student they devote time to learning something and in this case they are learning something that will help them produce their next masterpiece.
Leonardo Da Vinci is said to have made a daily to do list of things he wanted to learn. (Read Walter Isaacson’s biography Da Vinci). He was a student… most of his life.
The other day I saw an interview of Mark Zuckerberg on the GaryVee YouTube channel and they briefly got into talking about how Zuck tests out technology to the point of him testing out dating apps to see how they work. This all informs his creativity.
Let’s learn something everyday. “You learn something everyday”.