You can't say there shouldn't be marketing and (that) marketing is a bad thing.
Marketing is neither good nor evil.
Design really can be anything.
I always drew. I was, you know, the school artist. I was the person who made the posters for the prom. That's who I was.
As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.
We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.