[Mike McCarty]

Personally, I think that anyone who would attribute the term "artistic sell out" to someone else has more than a little pomposity going on.

I have moved my studio to a gallery almost exclusively made up of household furnishing and antique type stuff. I paint my portraits as the shoppers pass by. When I envision myself as a highly successful portrait artist I don't include this scene. But, one does what one must do.

I hear and read things about the "compromised artistic vision" or, the selling of your talent to match the den sofa. I think these comments are made mostly by those who have the benefit of hanging around the perimeter of life.