There’s something about this painting, like a recollection of a forgotten memory. I can see this scene crystal clear in my mind if I close my eyes.

I don’t have anything useful to add here, just that it’s beautiful and I appreciate you posting this

So your argument is that putting in effort and investing money for a skill is ‘virtually impossible’ and that artists shouldn’t complain because they ‘probably wouldn’t have made much anyway’?

Following your logic generative AI would never come to exist, because there wouldn’t even be anything created for an AI to learn from.