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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8497132" data-attributes="member: 177">I think you vastly overstate the case of how successful artists are if they just do what they want.  If nothing else, for most of recorded history, I suspect most art ever created has been in form of practical goods (clothes, pottery, etc), rather than art that has no function except as art. The form of practical art is dictated by the need of the buyer, not the artist.  I make an artwork of a bowl because bowls sell, and I took it as my craft, and so on.From there, the Warhols, Dalis, and Michelangelos of the world are small in number, a handful, in comparison to the masses who produce art, and cannot make a living at it.</blockquote>