Are most successful artists geniuses?

Are most successful artists geniuses?
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Your question has three parts that are not at all consistent. “Going to Ivy League school but dropping out” is not indicative of any talent or intellect or genius. Correlation between between intellect and just being good at anything is not demonstrated either. An excellent wordsmith does not make a great engineer, does nt make a great gamesman. People’s talents manifest in different ways. And “successful” artists depends on how you define success. Many very talented artists do not succeed in the conventional sense. And Thomas Kinkade was very successful from a monetary standpoint, but he was no genius of a painter.
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