Collecting your own reference opposed to using someone else's is a sacred part of an artist's process. Without it, you are missing-out on a multitude of factors including emotional content. If you want to go beyond your reference you must experience the thing first-hand. For example, by taking this photo myself I had the opportunity to experience the moment and all its immeasurable details. I became intoxicated by the event, smelt the horses, felt the thumping of their hooves, heard the sounds of the crowd, befriended the culture, placed my bets on the horses and so-on and so-forth. Not to mention the experience as a whole gave me an invaluable sense of time and place. A true human experience. An experience that created a story which sounds more like a bundle of emotions than just an account of events. Life is art and art is life. And so, your life and your life's experiences collectively make-up your art. This emotional content gathered from the experience of living is what makes art so powerful and is very much irreplaceable. If you want to make good art, profound art, then I suggest taking-in and experiencing as much of life has to offer... then make it.
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