They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.
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It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
You don't make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable.
I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.
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