An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No what the artist needs is loneliness.
I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand...
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
If you want to learn something, just steal it