To accomplish anything in the arts one needs skills and mastery of language. Skills give us the innovative elasticity to accomplish what appears vividly in our imagination. In fact in the ancient world the word for art (arete) meant a special skill. It was like ‘techne’ to the Greeks. Having skills means we can forget about the ‘means’ of creativity and automatically concentrate of the main themes and subject matter of our art. All the cultures of the world admire skill. It also requires an imagination that aspires towards a certain kind of excellence.