{"id":3421,"date":"2012-08-23T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papekphotography.com\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2012-08-23T14:31:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:31:36","slug":"selftaughtartist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/selftaughtartist\/","title":{"rendered":"selftaughtartist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3422\" title=\"scottpapek\" src=\"http:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/scottpapek1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/scottpapek1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/scottpapek1-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[pinterest-pro type=&#8221;pinit&#8221; pin_url=&#8221;http:\/\/papekphotography.com\/selftaughtartist\/&#8221; pin_image_url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/scottpapek1.jpg&#8221; pin_counter=&#8221;horizontal&#8221; pin_desc=&#8221;Scott Papek captured a wave in San Diego&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>All artists are self-taught<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Techniques and skill and even a point of view are often handed down, formally or not. It&#8217;s easier to get started if you&#8217;re taught, of course.<\/p>\n<p>But art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact&#8211;sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sethgodin.com\/sg\/\">&#8220;Seth Godin&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pinterest-pro type=&#8221;pinit&#8221; pin_url=&#8221;http:\/\/papekphotography.com\/selftaughtartist\/&#8221; pin_image_url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/scottpapek1.jpg&#8221; pin_counter=&#8221;horizontal&#8221; pin_desc=&#8221;Scott Papek captured a wave in San Diego&#8221;] All artists are self-taught Techniques and skill and even a point of view are often handed down, formally or not. It&#8217;s easier to get started if you&#8217;re taught, of course. But art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[181,369,179,213,389,410,416,136,370,180,333,385,257,194,225,214,347,922,346,215,84,302,415,159,259,6,378,182,172,171,387,69,231,305,211,38,304,450,449,457,368],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape","tag-5d","tag-a","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-bay","tag-beach","tag-bird","tag-california","tag-camera","tag-canon","tag-clouds","tag-color","tag-colors","tag-gallery","tag-image","tag-in","tag-la-jolla","tag-landscape","tag-mark-2","tag-nature","tag-nebraska","tag-ocean","tag-ocean-beach","tag-omaha","tag-omaha-gallery","tag-papek","tag-patterns","tag-photograph","tag-photographer","tag-photography","tag-prime","tag-reflection","tag-sand","tag-scape","tag-scott","tag-scott-papek","tag-sea","tag-to-san-diego","tag-traveled","tag-wave","tag-with"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3427,"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/3427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}