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not knowing

ok, this may be a strange question, but were there ever artist who didn't study the elements of art?

Well, I mean, the first artist probably didn't! I'm fairly certain plenty of people haven't, and turned out pretty good.

Besides, a lot of artists started as little kids who didn't know the first thing about art. They maybe took classes later, but not to start out.

Plus, Darksilver says he never took lessons in his artist statement.

If I understand what you are asking, there are people that fix VCRs with out instructions so I'm sure there is artists that create art with out studying it. ;)

I don't understand why one would NOT want to learn more about art if they enjoy creating it.
I am always reading about art techniques/tutorials, art history and it help improves my work a lot!

I myself don't really see art quality as 'talent' but more a skill set that is learned and practiced over and over. :)

There are lots of untrained artists out there...if you search Google images for "outsider art" or "naive art" you'll see lots of examples.

Well I'm sure you can become a better artist without formal training but you still have to learn and pick up those things as you practise and it still takes a lot of practise, perhaps more so.
There's nothing wrong with reading books and getting tips before you stumble over those same things yourself. If someone has already discovered these things why not learn from that so that you can take that information and try and take it to the next level?

Study can help you learn things you never even thought of as being important and it can be interesting too. Especially when you learn that one thing that makes things start to fall into place. :)