Why I Don't Make Art For a Living: How Capitalism Kills Creativity - Nadya Primak
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Why I Don't Make Art For a Living: How Capitalism Kills Creativity - Nadya Primak
Illustrator Karlotta Freier recalls being mocked by her art school classmates for asking about how to make a living as an illustrator. “No one would make fun of a plumbing student for asking about the business side of things,” she says, “so why don’t I get to ask?” For decades, the promise of a creative career was the alleviation of the worst parts
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Artists have it the worst. If you answer, “I’m a writer,” for example, there’s a very good chance that the next question will be, “Oh, have you published anything?” which is actually a veiled way of asking, “Do you make any money off that?”
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