Philosophy: does classical study harm or stunt the artist?

[naknak]

What I found is quite different. No one tells you what art is, no one tells you this is what you need to do to be an artist, and you've done this and this wrong.

Art has to do with what we call -in contemporary or ancient Greek language- pure beauty or ''Kallos''. But since for most artist or not, pure beauty lays beyond our natural senses ,we enter to another world.The divine world and problems occur as to what we call ''divine''.So,teachers and others prefer not to give the meaning either of ''art'' or ''divine'' and every one is making art without knowing what he is doing or looking for.And the worst,he don't know why.

Kyprianos