False dichotomy I suspect, Steve. It's not an either/or get inspired/earn a living. They were almost certainly æsthetically-inspired & nitty-gritty-concentrating to earn an honest living simultaneously: not necessarily in equal proportions, which would have been a variable. And other considerations would have obtruded, like Michlangelo's worries about his physical safety on top of that scaffolding.

But considerations both of feeding the family & inspiring the faithful would have co-existed thruout. The word 'doublethink' might have been brilliantly invented by Orwell; but nor the concept.

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