This is a tricky distinction where this may be true of all specific individual humans, but not of humanity. At some point, language and art didn't exist, and humanity invented those things. We didn't mimic some other civilization that did it first.

I don't know that this distinction matters, but it is real. Even on an individual level, if you raise a child in complete isolation from history and teach them no language or art, they'll still form thoughts, have feelings, and develop means by which to communicate those.