Artist's ideas are just other ideas combined in yet-unseen ways. The originality (the reason they are unseen yet) is a side-effect of combinatorial explosion. Y

Artist's ideas are just other ideas combined in yet-unseen ways. The originality (the reason they are unseen yet) is a side-effect of combinatorial explosion. Your intuition will generate novel configurations within a narrow domain, while someone else's will generate different novelties just by operating on different material and under different assumptions. It's pretty easy to generate numbers that nobody has ever thought about before, for instance. It's easy because there are a lot of numbers.