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Making Money As An Artist: To Have Talent Once Meant You Were Wealthy
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Did you know the original word for money was talent? In Classical Latin, talents referred to “balance, weight; a sum of money. In Medieval Latin, talent referred not only to money, but had also come to mean having a special natural ability, aptitude, or gifts that one was committed to use and would always strive for improvement. The Greek word “talanton” was used to describe anything weighed for balance,…