>Art is only a human endeavor if it's done for intrinsic value or to share an idea or an emotion. Once the main -- or indeed only -- reason for creating something becomes "how many dollar bills will people put in my bank account if I let them see this?", it ceases to be art, in my opinion, and becomes conditioned capitalistic greed.

Truly, go live in the real world of being an artist who's struggling to get by at even a basic level and doesn't have all the soft cushions in life that provoke absurdly rigid and privileged sentiments like the ones you wrote here.

Creativity and the desire to express it don't put a person outside the essential pressures of economic need and its emotional roller coasters. On the other hand, when those needs aren't really satisfied, it can quickly become damn hard to be creative even if you're sincerely emotionally passionate about your creative expression. It's nice to spout crap about how people shouldn't create art just for "capitalistic greed", but for someone straining just to pay monthly rent and basic expenses, there's nothing greedy about having their creative motivation lubricated along with some decent sales or financial sponsorship. What nonsense to assume otherwise.