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Why Pay Someone Just to Make Art?

  • Writer: John Stackhouse
    John Stackhouse
  • Jul 20, 2010
  • 1 min read

Two people stand before two canvases. Both are painting. One deserves to be paid, the other doesn’t. Why?

This article is a particularly brilliant explanation of art as vocation that avoids disparaging art as hobby.

And when it comes to the church in particular paying for art, well, yes, we should, as the author argues well.

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