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Originally Posted by Giggleton
The very small percentage of creators who create mostly for compensation are statistically insignificant.
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Maybe. But your tiny percentage includes Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, the Brontės, and, if I can add another personal favorite, the Seekers.
On your side, Emily Dickinson comes to mind.
Visual artists? Here's
something on the impressionists:
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The artists were aiming for the living room, the drawing room, and the dining room of middle class interiors, as the small to medium sized canvases attest. Despite the openness to the art audience, the Impressionists were not really reaching out to the conservative spectator in search of sensation. Their real audience was the art dealers.
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