Well, as someone who will very soon be a lawyer... ;) An artist is different from being a lawyer because one is a lawyer by profession. There are few, if any, people (to my knowledge) that practice law as a hobby. Whereas there are professional artists and amateur artists and those who just create art for fun for themselves and/or their friends.
As a doctor or a lawyer, your work is entirely for the benefit of someone else. Whatever joy or satisfaction you get out of helping others or proving your skill, this is secondary to doing your job well so that the sick are healed and the law upheld. This is not to say that some artists are only producing art for the enjoyment of other people, but art is a rewarding enough endevour that many, many people would do it would do it just for themselves.
As for the copyright issues, you may be getting into a whole different topic there ;)
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Date: 2005-05-10 05:51 pm (UTC)As a doctor or a lawyer, your work is entirely for the benefit of someone else. Whatever joy or satisfaction you get out of helping others or proving your skill, this is secondary to doing your job well so that the sick are healed and the law upheld. This is not to say that some artists are only producing art for the enjoyment of other people, but art is a rewarding enough endevour that many, many people would do it would do it just for themselves.
As for the copyright issues, you may be getting into a whole different topic there ;)