Will_Heath

Simply put, you can teach anyone horticultural techniques but to be an artist takes something more, something unteachable. There is an eye required for creating art, something that can not be taught and can not be learned.

You can teach a student eveything about art, techniques, history, form, etc but all he will have is the knowledge. To create art, it also takes talent.

Very good art can be created without this talent, great art can never be.

I will always choose the person who has knowledge of horticultural techniques over a art school grad simply because this is a living art form in which first you must understand how the tree grows and then and only then can you shape it artistically.


Will