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no artist is born with the skillset to be considered good, all of its is learned, passed down by a master (or the internet nowadays)

Because the One is unknowable, it is also ineffable. How then can we talk about it, and what is Plotinus doing writing about it? Plotinus puts
the question to himself in Ennead 5, 3. 14, and gives a rather puzzling answer.

>We have no knowledge or concept of it, and we do not say it, but we say
>something about it. How then do we speak about it, if we do not grasp it. Does
>our having no knowledge of it mean that we do not grasp it at all? We do grasp it,
>but not in such a way as to say it, only to speak about it.

The distinction between saying and speaking about is puzzling. Could what Plotinus says here about the One be said about some perfectly ordinary
thing like a cabbage? I cannot say or utter a cabbage; I can only talk about it. What is meant here by ‘say’, I think, is something like ‘call by a name’ or
‘attribute predicates to’. This I can do with a cabbage, but not with the One. And the Greek word whose standard translation is ‘about’ can also mean
‘around’. Plotinus elsewhere says that we cannot even call the One ‘it’ or say that it ‘is’; we have to circle around it from outside (6. 3. 9. 55).