Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25266931-20161111003308/@comment-14138255-20161117062022

You're willing be a starving artist? Naive fool. It's completely arbitrary who gets recognized as an artist, and it's typically when you and all the rest of your family is gone for 2 hundred years (people might not even know your name). Call me cynical, but I don't see that as worth it. Why starve making art that by all rights might actually be terrible when you can make equally beautiful works that go to millions, even if you're a small part, and still have something to bring back. I don't want to be a cog, but It's better than being the rat crushed by the gears because he was looking for food.

I'm like very unsympathetic to the arts and artists, I just can't stand how arbitrary people are when it comes to art. I've seen beautiful artwork done by concept artists who make things on par with a painting of Venice 200 years ago, and yet they don't get an art gallery, they just get a paycheck. Why the hell would I like "serious" art when other artists will forever go unnoticed because they were "corporate shills."