Originally posted by MrGongGong
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But I also think that the contribution to the finished work of the artist who earns all the money can vary a lot - I slid out of this discussion earlier when I could not find the right words to distinguish between Henry Moore making maquettes which were then reproduced on a much larger scale, and Marc Quinn having the idea of placing a sculpture of Alison Lapper on the fourth plinth, a sculpture whose physical form owed nothing to the artist and everything to a sculptor whose name we don't even know.
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Originally posted by french frank
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(GP, citing Picasso's All children are artists, countered with Some of them are terrible artists though he did go on to list the ways in which their spontaneity and lack of selfconsciousness might work in their favour.)
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