Charles_V opened this issue on May 02, 2006 · 37 posts
dphoadley posted Wed, 03 May 2006 at 1:41 AM
"Some of the most famous works of the 'classics' were done for no other reason than making a buck...
Da Vinci, Leonardo, Mozart - all often did what they did to put food, wine, women, and song before themselves."
Human nature being essentially lazy, if there hadn't been a profit motive, if the classic artist hadn't had a patron that they absolutely HAD to please, it's debatable if they'd put the amount of effort they did into achieving the excellence that they did.