Talent

Talent is a "built-in" feature. That´s for sure. And talent cannot be replaced by not so much practising! Of this I´m convinced, it´s a fact which cannot be denied or talked away in advertisements.

Today en la playa I watched one of these street artists, he was painting, with coloured chalk, the copy of a photograph which passers-by had given to him. It was astonishing how elaborate and detailed the outcome of his art work was: I couldn´t tell the painting he´d made from the photograph it was based on, and I had been watching him painting it! The same applies to some artists who do paintings on the surface of the street: how elaborate these imagines with a sometimes religious background are. I could never, ever do it like this, simply because I don´t have the talent. And I could learn how to do it only to a certain degree, but I´d never become perfect. Another example: mathematics. I love the form of mathematical equations, the wonder of figures and symbols. Yet I´d never become a genius. In school, I got only medium marks. I´m just mediocre in everything. But I don´t care any more: there´s been only one Einstein.

recorded in June 09