Is History of Art & Design necessary for my large goals?

Well, in my opinion i guess is necessary because that we can learn from the pass and what kind of design and method they use in their design . We can take their artwork to use as reference and remake it into new that can be accept by the new generation with the mix of the pass design . So History of Art & Design is very important to my large goals . Other than that, well when we gain more knowledge and the more creative we will be,  we can use the knowledge from this subject to improve ourselves.