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Jeff Watts:

If someone comes up to you and says they can speak six different languages-- German, French, etc.-- everyone is so impressed. "Oh my God! I can't believe you speak six languages." But if you come up to somebody say you speak twelve visual languages, people go, "Huh? What does that mean? That doesn't mean anything. Aren't you just gifted with that and born with the ability to draw and paint like that?" No. You see, it takes thousands and thousands of hours to train and memorize. So it's getting people to understand that art language is an aptitude, like someone has an aptitude for math or English. It still has to be cultivated like someone was teaching you a language, and I think that's where a lot of the schools and the students go wrong. They think they can master right away. You know, I tell people when they come in for a ten-week course, "What would you learn in a French class in ten weeks other than it sounds really weird and that the conjugations are crazy?" I mean, you'd learn "bonjour" and that would be about it.