Act of painting

You learn to paint and then you stop painting for an indefinite time, then you have to learn again. So many things that you had imbibed, learned, made your own - your own natural tendency; so many things regarding the manner of doing things your way. They are all lost. Some habits remain. But they are usually bad habits. Habits which the body remembers more easily. More an inert memory than anything else. It is sort of residual memory. Stuff that's stuck in the crags of things. One good thing though: you progress rapidly when you re-start. You re-learn and you retain. That is one hell of a positive thing.