You can learn a lot about marketing simply by taking a few online classes, depending on how far you want to go. There’s a lot of theory and shit involved, stuff I know sorta but not in depth, that you see used by executives and shit but isn’t hard to learn.
B.S. In Information Technology. Sometimes I wonder if I’ve learned (retained) anything I learned in University.
PhD in chemistry
The truth is, dude in Art School Confidential had it right.
In order to be a great artist, you simply have to be a great artist.
The technical aspects can be learned on your own. And, if you’re actually interest in art, like, at all, you ought to already have been knee deep in dat info, well before going to college. Realest talk.
I don’t really subscribe to the born with talent belief. In the arts you sure can learn how to be great but you also have to be creative. Creativity is much harder to learn but nut impossible.
Creativity is innate.
It’s a matter of the inter-connectivity in people’s brains.
The drive that compels a person towards doing something with it, is another matter of brain capacity.
I think the latter is the harder thing to train up/hone.
I failed Kindergarten for 2 years in a row, because I failed at reciting the alphabet.
But when I did pass my ABC’s, I finally got that shiny gold star
B.S. in Physics, minor in Mathematics.
No smiley face, doe?
Smiley faces are equivalent to B’s. 
Is that what your parents told you to make you feel better?
Art School Confidential is a movie i used to yell into peoples faces about then i realized i was that crazy guy so i stopped. but yeah hes 100 percent right. its not about being born with great talent, its the difference between the guy who asks hsi favorite artist “what pencil do you use?” as if that matters, vs the artist who just makes art with whatever he has. but this isnt an art thread so ill shutup ol :b 
Shit man thank god I’m not the only artist here. Art school was a waste of money and time for me. After graduation I realized I could of learned all that shit and more on my own with online tutoring, books and gnomon/YouTube vids.
One thing I’ll say is; the starving artist stereotype has to go. Odds are you won’t be rich but if you practice smart and know your audience/clients, life can be good.