why thank you. It's true. Last year was my first year of art school... I had 28 hours of classes per week, and no doubt 50+ hours of homework each week. No matter what anyone thinks, art is HARD work. Scribbling on a piece of paper does NOT give it justice.

And most expensive.

I actually have to agree with you. Even though Art will be a career of which you love instead of getting a job you hate, art shouldn't be a career. Why? It's because once something becomes a job you are automatically dropped deadlines, what you need to paint specifically, and just what way they want you to paint it. If art is a hobby you can live freely and enjoy art itself. You can still sell your work, but keeping it as a career tends to not do well. Then again, you have to come up with the fact on people who are artists. Artists have abilities that are magnificent comapred to an average human. If someone has a talent to offer this world, they should follow through. Because when you do have a talent, you make money. Acting, music, cooking, and yes art. People who are supposidly making crap in your eyes is beauty in anothers. It's really all about prespective and how you follow through on it. Like an artist actually bought two blocks of wood, painted one white and one red, and sold thousands for it. Those pecies of wood are now in a musuem. We may fine that as a "What is that guy even thinking" but someone see beauty in it while we see crap. I actually think that if an artist realizes how people view things and willing to offer something, they're genious. Limiting their work to be so simple and yet being able to sell thouands is genious itself.