This background will inform your work and give you professional credibility. Ignorance is not a good look in industry or competition circles. Approach your work with a sense of generosity. Repeating the generous act of giving something creative, something beautiful perhaps, to your fellow human beings - whether they recognize it and appreciate it or not will probably make you a richer person. Expose yourself to artistic influences outside your generic areas of interest.
Art is extremely broad.
Irish band, U2, for example, constantly acknowledge the enormous influence of Norman Mailer's writing on their bestselling Joshua Tree album.