It is incredibly difficult for me to "wrap my arms" around the idea that all (people), are born artists. Opinions and personal experiences abound which when viewed from all angles, make it completely clear, that the word "Art" in and of itself, can be misunderstood and semantically deposed as such, that in the end it is apt to leave even the scholar and accredited as such, fundamentally trained, in as many positions as a rubber toy from the 1970's.

The very depth and weight, such a word - much less an imposed seventh sense type of gift - bestowed on all, quite frankly, makes me wonder if my "Stick Figures" were only the beginning of a Rembrandt journey cut short!

When we think of Rembrandt, hence, artist extraordinary, we are perplexed, as we look INTO the art created by him. Not even all of us, are able to view art, which is sad given the fact of blindness, and yet one of Rembrandt's gifts, lazy eye, it is currently being said, enabled him to (see) things differently than those who do not have at least one eye in a five to twenty degree difference from center.

Fascinating as that is, and yes, I do find it such, He was born an artist. Leonardo Da Vinci, Monet, Manet, Reubens, Clasz, Remington, (lets not forget the child prodigy, already outselling all of the aforementioned), anyone whose name started or starts with Michaelangelo Titian, Carravagio, Dali, JMW Turner, Joni Pienkowski, Vincent Price? Each were born (predestined and flat out no denying it) artists. Each of them possessed a natural, and yes I dare, God (and if your God is named Lucifer that's okay, ads to the choices, values, and motivations for art) given gift to express what they were seeing, and also, what they imagined, in such a way as to leave the rest of us "Etch-A-Sketchers" in utter bewilderment.

Okay, Old Master's, born with art, and realizing this, accept this and create at will, agree?

In Clearwater, Florida (a more recent 1980's) a Bottle Nosed Dolphin by the name of "Sunset Sam", literally selected paint color, while holding a brush in his beak, and then (with adept precision?) put that paint to canvas, which culminated in nothing short of an incredibly intelligent Mammal, with a great team of people who loved him and only wished for him to be healthy and happy. Sam, who was a resident of the Clearwater Marine Science Center, and undoubtedly the most famous to date of such residences, was not able to live in the wild, a rescued porpoise who

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