I suppose, also, it is fair to say that even an artist who is already comfortable, whose existence can be described as, say, middle class, or upper middle class, can benefit from seeing their work bring profits to them, but only insofar as those profits do not cause them to become decadent or self-indulgent, for that is, I think, the surest and fastest way for an artist to destroy their talent. I guess an artist like Truman Capote, or Salvador Dalí, might disagree with me, for they tended toward extravagance in their personal lives, and perhaps their work did not suffer from it too much (at least not in the case of Dalí), but I think, unless you die young, and burn through your talent explosively, as many great artists have done, you should safeguard it the way a nun safeguards her chastity.