Joanne-

Well said.

Starving doesn't necessarily make one a better artist. But great artists generally have ignored the commercial art path. My grandfather once considered going back to commercial lithography when things looked dire but my grandmother convinced him that they could somehow make do with the little money they were earning and continue to focus on their creative art. Their artwork now sells for ten or twenty times what Kinkade would have been paid for anything he painted.

Charley Noble