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Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

— Maureen Forrester

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

— Alicia Witt

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

— Kevin Spacey

The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

— Brit Marling

There's an awful lot of choices in the world as far as what one can do for a living. It's best to be familiar with as many sectors of the working world as you can be so you'll be better at your creative job anyway.

— Justine Bateman

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

— Maynard Webb

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.

— George Sutherland

I love the arts.

— Columba Bush

✗Opposing Perspectives

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.

— Nicole Appleton

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.

— Kurt Vonnegut