Talent?

[luco]

I was having an argument with a few people today. They were telling me that anyone can learn to draw and that it doesn't really require talent, just alot of practice.

They said that true talent can be seen in writing...

The argument went on for sometime and finally I just let them ramble and hoped they'd go away...

But it does make you wonder....I feel they both require talent....and I thought everyone felt that way as well.

Seems I was wrong....

My bad.

Comments

[maderr.livejournal.com]

They both count as art, inmho. And I would say both take a certain amount of talent and a lot of work. I'll never be able to draw/paint/etc, no matter how much I practice. To discredit artists like that makes me see red. You're mad talented, and I know you work hard at it. Sounds like they were writers on their high horses. They seem to have forgotten that a lot of books do, sadly, sell by their covers.

[luco-millian.livejournal.com]

Well they are supposedly recent College Grads come to give us a Speech (Seminar..whatever...) and I think they have something against artists or else just against someone who can make something of themselvs without a certificate...it just sucked that it was 5 to 1 with the rest of my class just looking on blankly.....