This is most strikingly shown in regard to painting, where mastery of technique is at least as much within their power as within ours; and hence they are diligent in cultivating it; but still, they have not a single great painting to boast of, just because they are deficient in that objectivity of mind which is so directly indispensable in painting. They never get beyond a subjective point of view.

-Arthur Schopenhauer