Why are you assuming that everyone has the same metric for being the "top"? There are millions of artists out there, creating from the world around them somethi

Why are you assuming that everyone has the same metric for being the "top"? There are millions of artists out there, creating from the world around them something unique to their time and place. Your base assumption appears to be that a bell curve can be applied to human creativity. Ask yourself who told you this and why.