"I know I'm not going to evaluate whether the guy who paints for himself or the guy who paints for a spot on the museum wall has a higher degree of "pure" love

"I know I'm not going to evaluate whether the guy who paints for himself or the guy who paints for a spot on the museum wall has a higher degree of "pure" love for an action." Right. There are no Scotsmen here, true or otherwise. My point is that some people do assorted things for the sake of doing them, for some intrinsic reason, not to solve some specific problem or address some external need. Few people seem surprised when this is what motivates people to paint or play music, but when people say they feel that way about writing software, eyebrows go up.