Without artists creating, practicing, and/or demonstrating an art the world would be a terribly dreary place without artists, wouldn't you say? 
I believe so. Artists bring so much to our world and beauty!
Indeed! An artists doesn't necessarily mean a painter, mind you, the term is often used in the entertainment business for musicians and other performers.
Yes, that's true. They also bring much to us. Giving us entertainment and inspiration.
Speaking of music, my favorite genre is jazz, a genre that originated in African-American communities of New Orleans, US. What is your favorite genre of music?
I like classic rock and pop.
Classic rock
Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the 1960s to the 1990s, primarily focusing on commercially successful blues rock and hard rock popularized in the 1970s AOR format. The radio format became increasingly popular with the baby boomer demographic by the end of the 1990s.
Although classic rock has mostly appealed to adult listeners, music associated with this format received more exposure
He felt that compared to other artists, abstract artists struggled the most to gain publicity in the American art world. Diller said "if you happened to be concerned at all about the contemporary movements in art [during his life], which then, of course, were Cubism and so on, why there was absolutely no place to show your work... we had this problem again with abstract painting. Where would you show it? You were terribly fortunate to be shown any place, which is really, you know,