I totally agree, and it's not just prophetic.

The problem is in the "industrialisation" of an art, whereby everyone wants a piece of it for themselves, makes it a trade, makes it a business venture. The value of creating the art itself is lost, nobody understands it anymore. Things like "showmanship" receive more importantance, when it should just be a tiny part. One major example is MTV, it makes everyone with a guitar a "musician". There in itself the identity of being a musician is demoted to the lowest level one could've imagined in the early ages of this art called "music".

Even the recording industry is so saturated that it's hard to find one with good projects.

On the other hand, Fine Arts has been holding on to its roots, not tainted by the modern age of "graphics design" (which by itself most often also requires one to be a traditional artist). Nobody with a pencil and cavas can claim that he is an artist. And MTV can't make you one either =p