I was not trying to be cute. If I am going to have “witty repartee,” I will do it face to face and not on a blog post. As far as my mate preferences, all my friends are either artists or writers, so I prefer to date people outside of the arts. I find dating people outside of my profession adds more color and texture to my life. But I don’t see the correlation between intelligent conversation and someone’s occupation? And no, I have never found eschewing artists has limited my ability to find smart partners.