Altruistic modern day artists are out there, @backpackingmonk only perhaps quieter than their counterparts.
Lately, I've come to think of the artist as a type of mystic and poetry as a form of prayer. Here is an article, for World Literature Today, that I've written on Seeking the Light through Literature: https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2017/november/seeking-light-through-literature-yahia-lababidi
In this special issue on Belief in an Ag of Intolerance I featured many modern artists, some of whom refused to even accept payment for their work since they viewed it as a form of service towards a noble goal.
Thank you, @donkeypong, for sharing your fine post which have occasioned these meditations.
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@storytellingza:Yes ,Simple Living and Higher Thinking is the way the cathedrals went about Thier Art.
And as you rightly said, most of us lack long attentionspan these days. But what could be the reason?
It's good hear from you that artist with this kind of priciple existing even today @yahialababidi