Ideas from others can always be improved on. I'm a career artist, I look at as much art as possible. You're right too, I don't directly copy work out of respect for other artists. It's unspoken rule among true creative people.
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I like what the 19th century French poet Rimbaud said about it (in regard to future poets): "There will come other workers; they will begin at the horizons where he has expired."