Art requires money, and without money, art might produce a Van Gogh or Picasso, but ultimately, there are far more nameless, sorrowful strugglers barely known by others and without a legacy in history; mere digits in the great number of the population.
Just like the vast majority of people, they live in obscurity, unable to gain lasting fame or infamy.
Of course, that's the situation on Earth. In this world, art needs even more money because only with money can art avoid quickly becoming a haven for evil and chaos—at least not that quickly.
Malin was very pessimistic about this because he had discovered that among the evil gods, there seemed to be one connected to art.
Its name could not be mentioned, for in this world, tainted by subspace, uttering the name of a disaster-level evil god without protection would instantly connect oneself to that god's "broadcast channel."
