the process of learning

I came to a realization today...
in order to learn something, we must first learn to imitate
and then once we do that, then we apply the knowledge, and this step means to go "out of the box"

so taking art for example.
the first step of learning it is to imitate, drawing something or taking a picture of something or designing something similar to what we saw and liked.
Once we can do that successfully, then we can create our own style, and designing something that, although comes from a pre-existing idea, is original.

is this too deep for ya'll?