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Originally Posted by stonetools
So wait a second, do you pay much if anything to watch amateur sports? Do you get treated by amateur doctors? Do you take legal advice on important affairs from amateur lawyers? Because you're a fool if you do.
I'm afraid art is like everything else, mate. It requires dedication and constant effort to create good art and an insane amount of dedication to create great art. Just read your MALCOLM GLADWELL
Any true artist is going to want to dedicate himself to his art full time. He can't do that unless he can make a living at it. If Steven King couldn't have made a living writing books, with a wife and child to support , he'd had gone into the laundromat management business (or something else) and that would most likely have been that. |
If your mind equates a neccesity like medicine with luxuries like art and sports, I can see how you were able to arrive at the position you are flailing so wildly to defend.
Thus you arrive at your contention that works by people working a regular job are not art (however well recieved and enduring in popularity) because the artist wasn't "dedicated."