I should have been more specific. Clearly almost every people has created art. It's hard to dig almost anywhere in the world and not at some point hit some mag

I should have been more specific. Clearly almost every people has created art. It's hard to dig almost anywhere in the world and not at some point hit some magical amulet or wonderfully decorated pottery art, or something like that. My point was about the rather unusual situation of Leonardo, and even more so, jonmc12 question on how to allow more people the same freedom Leonardo had. The large degree of time and effort devoted to art, by a large part of the population, is unusual. Clearly every society has art, and often individuals, shamans, singers, etc, can be full time so to speak. But it's rare that most people can devote most of their time, to activities other then survival.