My experience is that good artists are usually warm and empathic, yet often critical towards art without depth or proof-of-work. Original people produce the most interesting art but not always the most market-adapted art.

In my youth I applied to several of the so-called 'free education' art schools in Stockholm together with a female friend who was also an artist.

We had a look at the exhibition made by students there and we couldn't believe the low quality of their work. Dried clay hanging in metal wires, without any meaning or aesthetic. And yet, we were both rejected, which was fine for me but she was deeply insulted, understandably so since she was very skilled at drawing and sculpting.

She commented to me afterward that all the students looked like communists, and I have to say she was on the right track. It was a political art school for socialists, with the pretense of 'free art school' for taxpayer money. That was the time I realized that the 'free education' system was rigged.

So we went our own way without the 'free public education'.