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And that's really good. I envy everybody who makes real money doing what they feel compelled to do naturally, especially in the arts. If you think about it, that could be more satisfying than making ridiculous amounts of money just because you get noticed by the gallery crowd or whatever. But I do think a lot of creative people get crushed a bit by the realization that they must produce things they have little to no interest in to make a living

y'know I thought about Rembrandt and his school as I was typing what I said. I don't think that his students were not making 'pure' art (don't believe in the concept of purity in general) and I don't romanticize art all that much. Still, I bet a lot of Rembrandts' student wanted to paint something really cool and imaginitive instead of what they had to paint just to make enough money to subsist.

I wonder if cave paintings were made for profit by cavemen who really wanted to paint something different that we have never seen or even imagined

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I'm willing to bet they at least didn't have to do the hunting or gathering that day. Maybe that was payment enough.

And maybe the ones who got creative are the reason for all those mythological creatures from throughout history.

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