Joel_Bowers
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Wizardry, On Horseback, Dark Knight, Famished Cookie Monster, Waking Cookie Monster, Disco, Fishing, Bugling
You Can Never Learn To Be An Artist or Never Finish.
You can only practice. Without patience practice, perserverance and curiosity, you are self selecting to be less than your possible best.
I Teach Taoist Tai Chi here in Billings Montana. I came close to being one of the standard causalties – people who give it a try and discover that it is harder for them to “learn” than it looks.
One of the cool things (and seldom understood principles) is that you can only practice, you never learn Tai Chi. As soon as you reach a certain stage of understanding, a whole new level opens up for you to aspire to understand and internalize.
My Artwork is very similar in that I am coming to realize that I can never finish “learning” to create art. There is no point at which I can say I have learned how to produce good art. Because no matter how accomplished I become, I can always do better.
It is a little bit like hiking up a mountain and imagining that the next ridge is the summit. But one is repeatedly disappointed to find that there is yet another ridge to climb beyond the one you though was the top. But you cannot see the higher level until you reach the next to the highest level.
In hiking, one may actually reach the top, but in artistry skills you can never get to the top. There is always better. One can only practice, practice, practice, improve skills and learn more about tools and techniques.
One can, of course stagnate at whatever level they feel comfortable in Tai Chi as well as in their mastery of Art.
I totally agree with you. Sometimes even creative writing is like this. Lovely colors and textures there.