What is talent, exactly?  The obvious answer may be a skill or behavior an individual excels at with seemingly little effort but is that really talent?

Is talent a natural ability, something that a person just seems to have, or is it a practiced behavior.  It seems some musicians just “get” musical theory, or some painters just know how to deal with spatial aspects of painting without ever having been taught to do so. How?

If talent is part natural ability and part repetition, does talent improve with repetition or the ability one holds improves? For example, no matter how much I write I will never become outstanding at putting my thoughts into words. Better yet, are talent and ability different things?

So, is talent a natural ability?  Is it something learned, or is it a combination of both?