A good artist - a successful artist?

[DSF]

I have to respond in detail to the distinguished Art-lover, but for me, almost all made the LCR!! I said to her, and add almost nothing. All the point.
I only have one more consideration. We know the artists who lived a short life, but had a lot more than any other in his life - Masaccio, Vasilyev or Modigliani ... They succeeded. We know the artists who have renounced family - Bryullov, Degas, Gauguin, the same, which his wife did not forgive the fact that he threw a good life ... They coped. And the artists who had been seriously ill? Renoir, who said, "between painting and legs, I choose painting, Kustodiyev, chained to his bed said:" For every step I'm standing in front of "sold out" - that "it is impossible, inaccessible, impossible." And ... to the eastern Yogi - "do not want anything, do not want" ... when all seems logical reasoning can not reach. I so much want to, of course, for me, inaccessible, or Frida Kahlo? Oh, they had every right to complain about the difficulties and lay down their arms, nobody would not reproach them. But they survived.
      Do not get me wrong, I do not call for asceticism and monasticism. I just want to say that the difficulties - that is no reason to lay down their arms, and that the real talent will find out and to be realized.

Ninni High-quality material needed in any case - especially in art.

Dear Ninni! I completely agree with you. Just when I talked about the ideas I had in mind beautiful ideas, not literary (left Cossacks - Tartars on the right), the word "beautiful" I've highlighted in italics (probably not). But the ideas expressed in the picturesque picturesque means. And of course the material is of great importance, it is impossible to deny. That's why I quoted the words of Renoir's "good-quality paint. I just think that really is a matter of course.