[Melas]

In fact, all great artists have been artists of the right... can't think of one from the left except maybe Brecht.

Surely you jest? Tennesee Williams, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ibsen, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, the Bronte sisters, and many many more that I could name were anything but on the right.

I have a pet theory that conservative personalities are anethma to the inherent instability of a career in the arts. Conservatives are attracted to professions with more predictable futures and incomes.

[Blind Eye Jones]

Most great self respecting artists will realize their own greatness and, therefore, they don't buy into the radical egalitarianism that's demanded by the Left... not that they don't have a social conscience. I don't know how you can mention any of these names, especially Oscar Wilde, who perhaps had the greatest sense of his own extraordinary talents and, therefore, deserved social inequality. Artists have always realized that they are not equal to the masses... at least the honest ones. They may have hated the Bourgeois for being a crass philistine which is different from Marx hating the bourgeois for economic and social reasons. Neo Marxists have done wonders to co-opt and confabulate the two aspects of being Bourgeois... they also co-opted and distorted the views of perhaps the greatest Continental right wing thinker, Nietzsche, for their own use.

I like your theory. It is true that is great instability in the arts and not everyone can be an artist. The great ones are just that way by their own natural temperament with every little choice.

[Borges]

Great Art will always be claimed by both sides. Was Shakespeare liberal or conservative? He's been called everything from a Monarchist to a Marxist (before Marx) to a Freudian (before Freud).