Strongly recommend that you read the book I linked to above. 'Artist', as a thing that an adult can be and do, has only been around for a hundred or so years (

Strongly recommend that you read the book I linked to above. 'Artist', as a thing that an adult can be and do, has only been around for a hundred or so years (said William Deresiewicz https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53935644-the-death-of-the-artist?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=iUKrO3Bkzd&rank=1 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53935644-the-death-of-th...) and there is no reason to think it will be around for a hundred more. Yes, art has been around for thousands of years, but most of that time, it was beholden to: the church, the power structures of the day, etc. The idea of 'art for art's sake', the idea of artists empowered to do and make things that their commission did not specifically tell them to do, is not an immortal category of human. I'm not doing this argument justice, please read William Deresiewicz. <3 What a great book.