Quote Originally Posted by pauland View Post
you can continue to tell people they can't enjoy art and have success with art if they have no talent and I will encourage ANYONE to take up art and enjoy it knowing that many people who believed they are unable to draw/paint/sculpt can continue to have success with it on a personal and sometimes commercial and critical level.
I did not say that Paul; I never said you cannot enjoy art at any level; nor did set out to discourage anyone

what I did was make an argument for there being degrees of ability, and that some of the higher degrees are going to require talent, and the accepted definition of talent is as I gave from the dictionary quotes earlier

if you don't accept that, I have no problem, but I know that nature gives different people different levels of ability in many different ways

I am sorry if you feel I was getting at anyone...