Experience is a great teacher.
We learn the most from what affects us personally. The English artist Joseph Turner once invited the preacher and novelist Charles Kingsley to his studio to see a picture he had just completed of a storm at sea. I knew this was the only way I could get a feel for my subject. I not only observed it and sensed its power, but the tempest blew itself into me until I seemed to become a part of it. When it was over, I was able to depict on canvas all the fury I had felt at sea.