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"Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!"

― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

I would rather the government support a thousand artists than one military contractor.

It should be pointed out that most of the renaissance artists subsisted through the patronage system. 
Leonardo Da Vinci's patrons....
Cesare Borgia
Giuliano de' Medici
France's King Francis I
The House of Medici
Isabella d'Este

Quote from: BikerDude on February 09, 2014, 12:50:40 AM
It should be pointed out that most of the renaissance artists subsisted through the patronage system. 
Leonardo Da Vinci's patrons....
Cesare Borgia
Giuliano de' Medici
France's King Francis I
The House of Medici
Isabella d'Este

The only way for an artist to exist was through patronage.

Prior to the Renaissance the only patron really was the church.

The majority of Da Vinci's work was siege engines and weapons of mass destruction. But that was what he was paid for.

Well, you know me; I like to stir up some shit once in a while!

All good thoughts, dudes!


...but it is true; whores makes their money from patronage also.

I'm just gonna go find a cash machine.

Coitus?

Zesty coitus!