I agree with you completely that the most likely chance of success comes from knowing the rules before breaking them. But I don't think it's unheard of for som

I agree with you completely that the most likely chance of success comes from knowing the rules before breaking them. But I don't think it's unheard of for someone to bypass the rule-learning and figure out some new way of looking at things. Granted, maybe had they been forced to learn the rules they would have ended up breaking them anyway. Many people are content to just learn the rules. But given two works of art, can you actually say "that one is amazing because the artist learned the rules and that one is not because the artist was making up his/her own new rules or merely guessing" ? And quite a bit is possible given infinite monkeys. :)