The best education an artist can have is working for another artist and witnessing the fortitude it takes to create, sell, and maintain a living as a working artist.
In this era of social media, more people can see what other people are doing, but the price for that has been a loss of privacy and time to develop, replaced by seemingly non-stop self-promotion.
The Incas in South America believe in Pachamama as the great creator. Mother Nature is the underrated artist to us human beings, especially to me. She is like all the artists and common artisans who quietly work, inspiring others.