Quote - genuine feeling .

If you mean "genuine" in the extended sense of "accurately represented," I agree completely. As a mediocre visual artist (my medium is words), the hardest struggle I face is getting the "feeling" into a picture. My feeling may be genuine, but my ability to represent it is weak.

Quote - You can learn an application inside out and upside down, but if you don't hold that fire inside you then it will always be technically brilliant, but artistically lacking.

No resolvling this paradox. Craft without art is no better than art without craft. The greatest artists struggle with the intractable tools of their art, but they struggle knowledgably.