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What a fascinating thread - I have read it two or three time already. I felt compelled to add my two cents worth as a result of reading Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own". I just knew there were a couple of quotes I could add-with vicarious sense of accomplishment-that would be entirely appropriate. Well, I couldn't find them. But the premise of her lecture is that in order to write, a woman needs money and a room of her own. Extrapolate to painting, and both men and women (although this thread has touched on the particular challenges of women in their pursuits) and that may be it in a nutshell (I'll get back to the nuts in a bit). Then Ms. Woolf spends the rest of her work in examining the lives of those who were driven to create without even her limited requirements. And the tests that they were subjected to as a matter of course. Welcome to the history of creating art.
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