Do you believe this statement – a famous quote from Oscar Wilde – is true? 

“The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman.”

My Opinion: That is intellectual rubbish and snobbery of the most naïve kind. Shakespeare, the greatest English writer in history, was keenly devoted to pleasing the public because his life and the life of his wife and children depended on his success. And he is just one of dozens I could point to in every field of art you can name. Mozart? Picasso? Fred Astaire?