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I've always found high education in art to be one of the most counterproductive things. To me school rewards more the interested than the talented. Meaning that even if you study all the classics, study how light behaves mechanically, or cameras and their history, you won't necessarily be great. A great artist would just have the feeling of love and creativity for his craft that an educated person can't buy. I hold a PhD in physics, does that mean I'm a great researcher ? No (sadly). I don't have the vision, the little thing that the greats have, I don't. I will never discover anything meaningful because if I was on the road to be great, I would have walked this road a long time ago. In engineering I often say
>lot of engineers but really few ingenious persons.
It's the same in photography, a lot of photographers, and very few artists. I'm a firm believer that if fan ho can take picrel, you don't need school, you need talent, and school won't give it to you, thrust me. I know how light behaves mechanically better than most people in the world, yet my pics sucks. Enjoy the beauty, don't focus on theory, that's what ruins the world.
