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In general, I think it is true that those composers, novelists, playwrights, and the like who wrote for the box office produced work of more lasting value than those who sat down and proclaimed to themselves, "Now I am going to compose Great Art."
Hmm... How many artists were derided by audiences and ignored only to be highly acclaimed later? Start with Van Gogh and go from there. Today we have Michael Bay. I don't think I could live in a world where Transformers is deemed to be of more lasting value than the work of the Dardennes or Haneke or Kar-Wai; where Harry Potter is preferable to Bolano or Murakami.
I don't care too much for Dickens, to be honest, for that very reason.