OK - now I think I'm getting it. The artist is the one who says they write for themselves, and their gift to the world is posting it at all. The logical extreme on that is the one who never posts, or conversely never sets up a review system. Feedback doesn't matter because the reviews are beneath them and the art - it is done and perfect and unchangeable. IF there are flaws, those are addressed in the next cycle, and they knew about them first.

Those people I've met. The ones who disdain posting are a self-limiting group. I had an aunt who did that - we found boxes of her writing when she died. No cyberfame for her. That's what I was thinking of as the artist - and the "arguing reviews" bit threw me into the wrong path. Thanks for clearing it up.