All the good art has already been made. Seriously, what else is there to do?
Of the various artists I’ve known in a variety of disciplines, none ever thought that all the good art had already been made - and the only time they wondered what else there was to do was when they were in a creative slump.
But don’t you agree we’ve definitely reached the point of diminishing marginal returns?
For example, I literally could listen to a song from the 1960s, and tell you not only the year, but the month of the song.
If you play me a song made after the year 2000, I couldn’t tell you the year, or even the decade, it all sounds the same now.