prodigy, 2

[egypturnash]

Lots of interesting thoughts on yesterday's entry about the seeming lack of visual arts prodigies.

Here's a thought I had regarding the lack, after going through more replies than I thought there were (LJ's being slow on the notification mails): To be a good artist, first you must learn to see like an adult; then you must learn to see like a child again.

And these things have to happen in sequence; by their nature, they can't overlap. And they take time.

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I think Bruce Lee's comment on martial arts may have been applicable to art as well when he said that there were three stages in progression: the first during which a kick is just a kick, the second during which a kick becomes more than a kick, and the third during which a kick becomes just a kick again.