[ausudhz]

> Am an artist

You're one, you're not "all artists"

> And in general, artists of yesteryear were either already rich

Very much a false statement, I can make a never ending list of artists that were born, lived and died as poor man. Van Gogh is one of them (just to make an example)

> or you were painting because a person with more riches than you have paid you to paint

there were plenty of painters that didn't focus on doing portrait of rich people or, for that matter, they weren't painting humans at all.

I don't understand your point, probably you never actually enjoyed art or entered a museum to make this empty arguments.

Or maybe, more likely, you're like many HN commentators that like to write a long empty message for the sake of arguing because you like doing that rather than understanding the comment.

unless you've data that demonstrate what you just said, is simply not true. Just because you have a few anecdotal evidence doesn't prove anything.