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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
it's funny, if i could be good at anything it would be music. but i'm not good at music, and not for lack of trying. i'm pretty good at drawing though, as a kid i wasn't the type to sit around drawing at all, and it's only in the last 12 months that i've really started drawing regularly or seriously at all. i love doing drawing, but it's not something i would have choosen if somebody said "you may choose any one thing to be good at". and as much as i love certain works of art, my enthusiasm and love for art in general doesn't even come close to my enthusiasm and love for the phenomenon that is music.
we don't pick what we we're good at, i wish we could, but we can't.
are the people you know who are big sports fans also excellent sportsmen? probably not.
our interests are not a reflection of our skills, and our skills are not an extension of our interests, thus i will probably never be more than a mediocre artist. but that's life.
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[I'm well aware this thread is a million years old]
I think from a lot of people's perspective, it's better to not be good at something you enjoy. I'm a pretty good musician (but by no means brilliant) and I find that the harder I work at it, the harder it is to enjoy listening to music. I know a fair few exceptionally talented musicians (i.e., semi-professional classical musicians), all of whom don't really take that much of an interest in music, or dismiss everything. I know one chappy who's a genuinely exceptional musician in a field of way-above-average musicians, and he listens to nearly nothing. Messiaen and Mozart, and nearly nothing else.
I really enjoy going to galleries precisely because I am largely useless at visual art. I can do figurative stuff pretty well, but I don't really see much challenge to representing something in paint, so I'm in the peculiar position of preferring 'contemporary' stuff (cubism onwards) to 'classical' stuff. Having said that, I've developed a soft spot for sculpture recently, and was surprised at how much I enjoyed Michaelangelo and Raphael last week in Rome. I still can't abide van Gogh mind you.