Perhaps more than a couple of 17th century (and later?) painters used a camera obscura to get the proportions and perspectives spot on. Then there was Norman Rockwell who would often paint from staged photographs.
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I’m confident I could do the Van Gogh, given the time. Maybe a couple decades. A couple dozen drafts to get there.
The Michaelangelo would take longer.
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Sometimes, people really disappoint me.
Percentage of the time people really disappointed me when I was five years old: 10
When I was twenty-five years old: 50
When I was fifty years old: 90
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“Lonely, elderly U.S. shut-ins with only a land-line surveyed” would be more accurate
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I am confident I could beat Serena Williams… or at least get in a couple points while she rolls laughing at my terrible form. Perhaps she would take pity on me and let me win after the third time I whiffed on an attempted serve.
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You’re just going to Moh-zy on in here with a geology joke?
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I guess I just took it for granite that somebody would.
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Just for schists and giggles?
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You know I lava that sorta thing.
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It is quite gneiss to see.
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(Years later, standing amid piles of rubble)
“Shit, I didn’t find any Italian Renaissance Masterworks in this block of marble either! Maybe I’ve been looking in the wrong quarry…”
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I’m guessing this is pretty much Dunning-Kruger in action, and that most of those aspiring sculptors and painters have never attempted any art in their lives. As for those who favour technological tracking at work, they’re picturing themselves as the boss, not the tracked employee, most likely.
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Bernini was a genius, and he wasn’t shy about letting people know it.
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I think he earned the right. Proserpina’s thigh is amazing. 
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And he was only 23 when he carved that!
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Aside from the high probability that the poll is entirely unreliable, all those ‘ones’ must be delusional A/F.
Michelangelo is infamous even centuries after his death for a reason; he was an actual genius.
And the mere naked form of a human body does NOT equate to freakin’ pornography.
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Bernini started this one when he was 11 years old (completed 6 years later). Genius such as his (when afforded access to materials) can evidence itself much earlier.
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Obviously it also didn’t hurt that his father was also a sculptor of great renown who was in a position to help show his young son a thing or two about the trade.
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