I was born into a family of musicians and artists, but not just “artists” as the general public knows the stigma to attach itself. There was no such word of “artists” as we generally know them today. Of course it was generally the convention since the 19th century and the term “starving artists” was initiated out of a drama (a play) set in Paris that our stigma became a general catch phrase among the populace. Traditionally, basically ever since the arts emerged out of the Renaissance, the arts as they were generally known had positively nothing of the free hand expression given today in a somewhat derogatory manner. There has been and continued as a tradition, and a well respected tradition, as per the arts for many centuries. Unfortunately this has not been played out among popular media and culture of today. In some respects this tradition that has lasted well over a thousand years.. laying a pathway of many influences.