why is making a living of art so fucking BS. It's like

>>7377434
/lit/ - literature

>>7377440
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>>7377440
>implying my post context isn't about writing literature.

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>wanting to be creative while living a stable life

>>7377434
>of art

You have to exploit the zeitgeist with buzzfeed style memes. That's how you get in.

>>7377434
If your goal is money or fame, you shouldn't try to become an artist.

>>7377444

Many of the greatest writers all had very finely regulated working and sleeping habits.

Because art is hit or miss. Nobody wants "average" art.

>>7377518

>Balzac

>>7377434
Kinda a weird idea. I would think if you're mediocre in the visual arts you become a graphic designer. With photography maybe a wedding photographer. Writers could write magazine articles and articles on transgender period cycles for buzzfeed, or if you're better you could maybe do copywriting for advertising.

Fine artists, novelists and poets are kinda the surgeons of the craft, they are the most elite artists but by no means the richest, & the opposite doesn't necessarily make you poor. Unless you're like, living in Bulgaria or some shit.

>>7377550
>Nobody wants "average" art.
I strongly disagree. Most popular art is not even average, it is flat-out mediocre, but this doesn't stop it from selling.