Making art is about discovering something new.

“If you know exactly what you are going to say in a poem,” he continued, “that poem will be a failure. Besides, there is no interest or fun, in saying what you already know.” ”[A poet] follows the language, and sees where it might lead him, which is usually a very different place from what he thought at the onset.”

Making art is about discovering something new. We have to be willing to go where we are lead.

Art takes you where it wants you to go - Austin Kleon