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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Griffon" data-source="post: 632046" data-attributes="member: 9425">Now THIS is a rant!Almost anyone who can read at a high school graduate level and whose hands don't shake can learn to be a mechanic, a plumber, a salesman, a doctor, or president of the USA.The same can not be said for becoming an artist.Or a good writer, etc.Creativity is the most valuable quality in any human being.Followed, in order, by compassion and intelligence.An artist is a creative thinker.Every great thinker has been a creative thinker.Even in mathematics and other sciences, which many people do not think of as creative fields. Einstein came up with new ideas from the creative portion of his mind. Not the analytical side. Stephen Hawkings is very witty and creative. They are artists too.People who can do lightning quick mathematical calculations in their head but who lack creativity have never contributed anything more to the world than a pocket calculator.That said, Art is communication. How much it is worth to you depends on whether or not you recieve the message, and what the emotion or idea behind that message means to you.An important thing to remember, though is that not everyone who can make a picture is an artist and not every picture is art.A given piece is one of three things to you: art, a nice picture, or just crap. And its not the same thing to everybody.So yes, true art is priceless. On the other hand, some of this crap is just way too expensive.A good rant starts off on topic, rages around all over the place, and lands back sort of where it started. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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