Even great artists were hired for pay.  Take the sistine chapel, one of Michealangelo's friends had to paint over the nudity at his request as he was dying do to the uproar it caused.  People forgot about the edit and when they did the restore a decade or two ago, they relearned what happened.

So if you say "it can't be art if it's for pay" mean a lot of artistic movies would have to be left out of the equations, books, music, etc.

 

WARK!

Thus Spoketh Winterclaw: a blog about a Winterclaw who speaks from time to time.

 

(using Poser Pro 2014 SR3, on 64 bit Win 7, poser units are inches.)