"Creating art for yourself is a fiction. Doing nearly anything for yourself is a fiction. As much as some feel they prefer to be alone, noone lives in a bubble."

Damn man, your life must suck if you do absolutely nothing for yourself, I dont really have anything else to respond to this with

"When you talk about barriers to entry for art, you really mean high quality art. "

I absolutely do not, most forms of art takes a shitload of hours invested to start producing anything that doesnt look like absolute garbage, the high quality stuff takes YEARS of investment yes, but even passable quality stuff takes a considerable time investment.

"The barriers to making art have been incredibly low for all of human history if you really are talking purely about the cost to begin making art."

Which costs are you talking about? Because as I just said, the time costs are huge

"It seems to me you would find it easier to work on your perspective that prevents you from enduring the failure required to learn high quality art than to advise we steal all art globally and historically, combine it into a program using the energy of a large nation, and present it to you at your home over the internet."

Ah there we go, twisting the wording to make the other side look bad morally. Nothing any of you have brought up I would classify as stealing. Thankfully, since I AM producing my art for myself, I could give a rats ass what people like you think since theres nothing you can do to stop me from making my art.