but they generally don't feel the same way about engineers or doctors or programmers or even architects? where does this notion that art is special and "unlearnable" come from?
art is in everything. "ART" stands for Absolute Real Truth. perhaps the reason people might 'think' it's 'unlearnable' is because maybe they were expecting learning to happen in 1 specific designated learning place, not taking into account the fact that 'art' is actually everywhere and therefore can be learned anywhere from anything