Correct. Yet knowing about something and doing it (especially successfully) is entirely different. Theory and practice.
I never said it is. I have a great respect for teachers. I think they should be paid and valued much more. Perhaps equally as artists or businessmen. But artists or businessmen they aren't.
Unfortunately, that's a destiny shared by many of the 'doers' too. Maybe the teachers teach it as well, you know under 'humility'?
Teaching, as a word, is too broad a bush for the sense of this discussion. There are many many subjects where teaching is the way - possibly the only way - to learn, but I don't accept that it has all that much value in art; yes, of course, teachers can teach about technique and tools and history, but that's a tiny part of the whole and as has been made abundantly clear via the world of art collection, a rather small factor towards success as an artist if a factor at all. Other things, such as contacts, mad ideas, exploitation of morality and even of religious beliefs, photography that touches the very far edges of boredom, those are the things that produce results - notoriety, in other words, is the highway in a lot of photography.
IMO.
Rob C
