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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8495955" data-attributes="member: 177">And now we get to the "What is art, and what is it for?" portion of our discussion.This is simplified in this case, as we are talking about art for commercial reproduction and distribution.  If you are trying to make money at art, and do not care how it is received, you are not going to be making much money.  This is art as communication, and proper communication requires consideration of the audience as much as the speaker.If artists and publishers really don't care what people think of the art, why isn't it in crayon scribbles by a 5-year-old?  Yeah, I mean, I don't care about what people think of my singing, when I do it in my kitchen while cooking supper - other than my wife, that is, as she has to put up with hearing it, but she's a forgiving audience.</blockquote>