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It became easier for me drop my desires to become a painter when I realized that there were far higher quality works that could be sponsored were I to take up the role of art patron and focus on that instead.
It was after that realization that I felt a strange kind of relief because then I could start branching out into all these other different mediums (egg tempera, mosaic, jewelry, woodcarving, etc.) as a fan and supporter rather than as a practitioner, because I was really curious about them and liked them, but not enough to take them up myself as an art student.