Beautiful writing and photography... how does one acquire

At my school, one of our old photography teachers made an archive of all of the websites that previous seniors have made. I was looking through these the other day and found these beautiful photos put with profound thoughts and feelings and I just wonder what it takes to even reach that? Is it suffering? Is it love? I'm sure I've had some thoughts that were like damn but I haven't put too much thought into it until recently. Perhaps it's from reading or consuming media that isn't made to satisfy for 3 seconds until onto the next one. 

Sometimes it's not even from previous seniors but even from my friends that I have now, when I go through their black books or sketchbooks sometimes I'll find these beautiful poems and it's like damn bitch! Who hurt you? or who loved you.... I guess some people are just more inclined like that.