art - natural or learned?

A teacher of mine recently quoted Mozart in telling me this : "There are two kinds of students. Those who can write two measures of music and those who can't". What it means to me is that to be an artist, the only requirement is to be able to create something, small as it may be, without getting a cue from anyone. So someone who isn't able to write something without first being pushed to do it will have a hard time ever being more than an artisan of his craft. However, wether this ability comes naturally or not is debatable.

I've never really had any problem with this part of creating, but I have seen people who did. I'm pretty sure it's something you can get over if you work at it hard enough, so I imagine one can develop artistic ability given enough time to do so.

Jam it back in, in the dark.