“There is a movement afoot to convince artists that they are simply another type of entrepreneur. On the surface, this is a seemingly harmless and understandable rejection of the starving artist trope. Yet people seem to have forgotten that, since the beginning of recorded history, artists' cultural role went far beyond simply making a product to peddle.” ArtCreativityPedagogyArtist As ShamanStarving ArtistsArtist EntrepreneurCultural Role Of ArtistsVisionary Artists Book:Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice Source: Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice
“I sat down and looked at the menu and thought how ironic it was that back then starving artists came to cafes like these because they lived on wine and street pigeons to survive, and now the same cafes are famous because of them and no starving artist can afford to eat there. It's hard to have an existential crisis when a glass of wine costs more than nine dollars.” Existential CrisisStarving Artists Book:Hungry Woman in Paris Source: Hungry Woman in Paris