I'm no artist but for me, the best artist and art and music, etc… is the stuff I don't understand at first. They let me see things a different way. If everything is easily recognizable with no mystery, you get the same ol same ol. Which is good for the most part because it's comforting. It can be carried too far. That's why there's the true artist and then the posers. Forcing differentness without a real vision.
There is a correlation between art and what's happening in the real world today. Artists work, make and change along the way and arrive at a finished piece. Life is very similar. What is happening now, thanks to the internet, is people are standing behind the artist, commenting, altering decisions and in general being a big pain in the ass when they should just shut up and wait for the finished product. It's truly not for other people to judge artists, especially mid-work. They can either understand them or not but in no way should they alter the idea with their influence. Let the artist be the artist. If you don't like it, make your own art.
For all things, those best at it have a gift for it. They can see things in ways others aren't able to. Everything can be duplicated, replicated right up to the last detail. But it's that initial vision that cannot be duplicated.