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Re:The Struggling Artist at 86 by pcurve on Sunday January 07, 2018 @04:15PM (#16092770)
Your comment reminded me of story of Marco Pierre White before he became famous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-xCIstDBaI

Uncompromising, relentless, with a lot of luck too (which he completely acknowledges in the video played a big part). But luck will only find you if you put yourself out there to be found, which White did.

Re:The Struggling Artist at 86 by nyc111 on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:57AM (#16095311)
Thanks for this link. I didn’t know who he was. I found his story inspirational. He says some chefs are artists. This may be true but there is a fundamental difference between a chef and a fine artist such as a painter. Chef’s product is useful. He has customers. There are well-defined standards for excellence such as the Michelin stars. But what an artist produces by definition is useless. Must be useless. Otherwise it will be denigrated as “not art but illustration,” or “decoration” or “commercial.” So the problem is to find a value system for something which is useless.