Making it Small Response

It sounds like the education of the artist is dependent on doing. There are instances where you can understand art logically or theoretically, but you may not necessarily be able to make good art. Art is very subjective, which means that not everyone is going to like your art, even if it is good. The point is that you want to reach a level of skill where people want to buy your art.

Becoming an artist takes time. It takes practice. Taste points out that it can take years before you're able to produce art at a level that conforms to your ideas of what good art should look like. Many hours go into studying and practicing to be able to produce art.

I have experienced this with my art. I love to make 3D models, but my skills were not at the level they needed to be in order to get a job doing it. I still enjoy making models and would love to get paid to do it, but I have decided to let it be a hobby. Mike Birbiglia mentioned that sometimes you have to quit. In a sense, I realized that I needed to quit pursuing 3D modeling as a career. Art is my hobby, not my source of income. I teach art because I enjoy making art and want others to experience that joy as well. I want to give them opportunities to be better than I was or am.

The other experience I have is that of failure. You can't make something great on your first attempt. You have to practice. Each time you practice, you have failures. You learn from those failures and you try again. You notice where you lack skill or technique and then you work on it. Maybe your perspective is off, you study perspective. You work from where you are and build yourself up. You don't have to be a world renown artist. You just have to be the best you can be.