[Salvanas]

Originally Posted by Tyrien

If you're aiming to be a historian and claim to know how important art, creativity, and design have been through the course of human history then you should know how important it is to embrace creativity today.

I would not rather 50 less artists and 3 more qualified doctors because that's now how we work as humans. I don't want someone becoming a doctor if they do not want to. I don't want MY doctor thinking every day how much he'd rather be doing something else but couldn't because he was not allowed to.

Now here's a video to help illustrate what I mean by saying how important creativity is today, and that we cannot have an over saturation.

Tim Brown on creativity and play | Video on TED.com Mind you, this video is about 27 minutes long.

Creativity and art are different things. You can have creativity without art. Likewise with imagination.

And you're warping my words. We should all do what we enjoy, because we will excel at it the most. However, I'm good at art, and I enjoy it, but I see the fact that we have too many artists these days. We do not require that many. So I decided to embrace another passion, History.

Many can do the same. But the majority of artists seem to be drop outs, or failures at school. I blame the education system for that.

Imagine picking up a newspaper or magazine that was devoid of photographs.

How much money would have been made in donations to Haiti without the pictures sent to our newspapers and TVs?

And I read your clarification, and I still think my post has merit. You can pick and choose which artists are worthy of existence and which are not, but you can't pretend there is no interconnectivity between creative thought and human advancement.

Even if you think someone's existence has no social worth, I am glad you weren't the one to give Da Vinci the heave-ho so another barber/bloodletter could have a job.

You may not see the worth in a said artist's or photographer's work, but if it inspires someone in a way that makes the world a better place, then who are you to say their existence is meaningless?

Again. Creative thought =/= art. It never has, and it never will.

Seriously, READ MY POSTS. You're obviously not reading them MMM, or ignoring them to make points which I agree with, and using them as arguments against me.

Yes, we need artists TO A POINT.

But we do not require a vast amount of them, as we have today.