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Old 06-30-2012, 03:50 PM   #92
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Originally Posted by Phogg View Post
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."
I'm afraid you've misunderstood. My point is not that people working a regular job can't produce good art. Rather, its because true artists want to dedicate themselves to working full time at their art-which means they need to get paid for their art.

I'm willing to bet that just about every self pubber around these parts is dying for the day when they are making enough money from their "sideline" to quit working their "day job" ( or at least cut back ) and focus on their art. I wouldn't expect anything less.
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