Freeman contends that he is completely self-taught as a musician.

I'm completely self-taught and did most of my learning from records.

J. Ralph is completely self-taught and does not read or write a single note of music.

As a composer, he had been completely self-taught from an early age.

Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes.

As a painter, Stockley was completely self-taught: in that he never trained at an art school.

It is, in his words, completely self-taught on a non-verbal level.

He turned pro in 1985 as a completely self-taught player.

He never received art lessons, but was completely self-taught, developing his own natural talent from an early age.

He was completely self-taught at the piano until the age of 5, when he began taking lessons.