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Originally Posted by Laurel Alanna McBrine
. . . . artists with families . . .
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These are the pertinent words, Laurel. The demands of serving such a paramour as "Art" to the fullest extent of one's being rather precludes having a family, and makes it something akin to joining a celibate priesthood. Michelangelo, Homer and Sargent come to mind as three who followed that course.
The lives of the masters amply illustrate how frustrations of family and interpersonal responsibility complicate "the process" : Rembrandt, Vermeer, Monet, and Rodin, for example. There are those who cheerfully (?) dispensed with the distractions . . . Gaugin, for one, and my personal favorite, Pisarro, who continued painting, apparently undeterred by any distresses arising from the reality that his starving wife and children had nothing to eat . . .