After thinking about this for many years, I would put it another way:

The argument about what is commercial art and what is fine art is similar to the argument about what is craft and what is art. There is certainly art in commercial art and also in craft, but I think what distinguishes fine art for me is that fine art requires taking extreme risks. It's about the process of birth and growth. Even the art of the Renaissance developed eventually to where certain artists were described as being "so facile" that their work ceased to have the power it had had at the beginning. The creation of fine art in the style of that period, and as developed by certain artists, had progressed into a formula. It was repeatable. It had become a craft.

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Horse (pregnant) under the net. Cave painting, La Pileta, Andalusia, Ice Age.
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