An original speech, written by our student Tanvi Malpani.

Tanvi is 9 years old young writer and orator from Jaipur. She loves badminton and stories. We are proud to have her as a student Public Speaking Through Applied Storytelling & Theatre Program in Jaipur under the mentorship of Trainer Khusshbo Chokhaani. We congratulate Tanvi for this exemplary true self-expression.

Are Artists Gifted or Trained?

Are artists god gifted or trained? In my opinion, successful artists are both god gifted and trained. It is definitely an innate ability because creativity is an integral part of a human being. Some are born with this creativity in an accelerated mode. While some nurture and nourishes this creative ability continuously through external training and continuous practice. Art exists everywhere and in every field. From scribbling on paper to expressing myself here on stage in front of you all, everything is an art.  Sculptors, Performance Artists, Makeup Artists, Illustrators, Makeup Artists, and many more, most of them are thriving based on two things:  practice and their structured or unstructured training. From Pablo Picasso to Indian Michelin Star Chef Vikas Khanna, all have excelled in their art and craft of painting and cooking through practice, dedication, grit, determination, and of course external teachers or training.

Agree or disagreed? If you disagree then you must listen to this story. If you agree then all the more you listen to this story.

It is said that real success comes after a string of failures that is what happened in JK Rowling’s life, the celebrated author of Harry Potter. One day when she was on sitting on a train seat where she got the idea of writing a fantasy book. As soon as she began to write, unfortunately, her mother died that year. She had to stop writing. Life threw many challenges at her but she had the determination of writing a book. She completed her book by writing it whenever she used to get time. As she was struggling between job and personal life challenges. Writing was her deeply rooted passion and a medium of expressing her true self. In 1995, her book was completed. She sent it for publication, and it got rejected by 12 publication houses. She didn’t give up. She had faith in her work. She knew that this book is revolutionary. She was exhausted but not defeated. She made conversations with other Publication companies and her efforts bore fruits. A small publishing company accepted the script of Harry Potter. The catch was they published only thousand copies.  Once it was published it went off the bookshelves like hotcakes. Harry Potter was another level of imagination and exemplary fantasy writing which nobody has read so far. There was a day when more than 500 million books of Harry Potter were published and sold.

This was possible only for an artist like JK Rowling because of her continuous practice of writing books, grit, determination, passion, and never to die attitude. She kept her patience throughout. With patience, her writing style was getting polished day by day.

To conclude I would like to say that to be a successful artist we should be trained either through formal or informal ways along with passion, grit, determination and continuous practice. J.K Rowling learned writing in early childhood and she got her first taste of success at the age of 35. Today we have the 7 volumes of Harry Potter and it has been translated into 84 languages around the world. She is a perfect example of a successful artist who has paved her way to excellence. American Actress, Sabrina Bryan once mentioned that, “You can achieve anything if you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.” Are you ready to be an artist now? As I feel everyone today is an artist.

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