you're the exception to the rule DW, every painter I ever worked with was an alcoholic 
everyone can be an exception we dont know where 'these' people dwell at every waking moment. they could be aliens on vacation disguised as alcholic painters as in a way to guide your perception at certain times to help you learn better is a possibility
if we only knew more than what we see from a distant we would find out many are aliens and not such simple alcoholics
just as a light flashes sixty times a second, and we only see a beam. hypothetically we could say our perception is xx and what we see is x ,its only a matter of adjustment that reveals a new world, a new being a vision.