It's always fascinating to see how accomplished artists work to be in conversation with others in their medium. How do people use the past to form their current

It's always fascinating to see how accomplished artists work to be in conversation with others in their medium. How do people use the past to form their current goals, and how do people use their current goals to guide their research into the past? How do they deconstruct what they think works, what doesn't? And how do they organize all of this thinking? These are really analytical guiding questions. Although I won't have an artistic career, I'd love to learn to think analytically like these artists do.