My version of Steal like an Artist: Point 1

So speaking of the museum, I am reading a book that I found there that I have had my eyes of for a while. Waiting for the right time to dive into it. When I found the title, I had no idea that it was a pun off of Picasso. I just thought it was a catchy thought. It's called "Steal like an Artist: 10 things nobody told you about being creative". A lot of what I have so far read in the book is pretty basic and a new way to think of an old perception. I'd like to consider the points I have read so far. 
1) Steal like an Artist. Nothing is original. At first, that sounds a bit depressing. In the past, I have viewed it as depressing. What is the point of creating if its already been created before? Every story stems from another, every story has already been told, every lesson was already once written. Avatar is Disney's Pocahontas but with blue aliens and technology instead of Native Americans and farming. AI is Pinocchio where things come to life. A Bug's Life is based off of Seven Samurai which is based off of historical events. So, why create? This thought has plagued me. It has stolen from my innocence and left me alone in the dark world.

I didn't have the answers, until now. First, I need to. I have this thirst to write so I had better quench it. I miss the way I feel on top of the world after finding a new way of understanding. I miss having my own mind blown and finding the ordinary extraordinary. The other answer is a quote from Andre Gide, a French writer, "Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again." You know what bored me to death in high school reading books that I couldn't relate to. Reading such old stories that I felt like I was learning to read again, not enjoying the stories in front of me. And absolutely not learning the lesson. If you want me to read Romeo and Juliet, give me West Side Story. And for the next generation, they will need their own. Don't focus on what used to be. People don't read it. Those that do, might not understand the lesson. 

So we create. We reinvent the wheel so that we can use it. If not, we'd still be carving rocks to roll onto our cars.