In the fact that we are enjoying what we are doing now, we can be content in knowing our artisitic abilities may not get recognized for years maybe even decades.
I have always been told when you love what you do the money will come.
However we still persevere because writing, painting, marketing, technology and business is what drives us both.
I know I dont need much to live on, but to have a life which enables me to write and share my life with so many is a dream come true.
The definition of Starving Artists according to Wikipedia.
A
starving artist is an
artist
who sacrifices material well-being in order to focus on their artwork.
They typically live on minimum expenses, either for a lack of business
or because all their
disposable income goes toward art projects.
Some starving artists desire mainstream success but have difficulty due to the high
barriers to entry in art such as
visual arts, the
film industry, and
theatre. These artists frequently take temporary positions (such as
waitering or other
service industry jobs) while they focus their attention on breaking through in their preferred field.
Others may find enough satisfaction in living as artists to choose
voluntary poverty regardless of prospects of future financial reward or broad recognition.
Virginia Nicholson writes in
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900–1939:
Fifty years on we may judge that
Dylan Thomas's poverty was noble, while
Nina Hamnett's
was senseless. But a minor artist with no money goes as hungry as a
genius. What drove them to do it? I believe that such people were not
only choosing art, they were choosing the life of the artist. Art
offered them a different way of living, one that they believed more than
compensated for the loss of comfort and respectability
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starving_artist
If we put artists in a box they will be misearble.
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