jus' aksin' so don't get all mad or nuffin'--but seriously, did any great fine artists (i mean ones that a philistine like me might know--like picasso, pollock, leonardo, rembrandt, van gogh, kinkade (hardeeharhar!!)), etc.--really go to "art school"? i mean painters as opposed to say graphic designers and such.

for that matter, did any truly great writers go to "writer's workshops" and get mfa's in fiction? i mean like hemingway (who never even went to college as far as i know) or faulkner, or fitzgerald, or kerouac, or shakespeare, etc.

jus' aksin'. . .