Wednesday 13 February 2008

HANS ABBING: Why Are Artists Poor?

How do you measure success?

2 comments:

Anna Guy said...

maybe success can't be measured by the artists themselves. If they are either deceiving themselves or being deceived by the romanticized portrayal of the arts. As the reality is that 80% of artists earn below what you would get on benefits then does that mean 80% of artists are not successful.

Unknown said...

The idea that making money and retaining integrity are mutually exclusive is unique to the arts. This suits the art industry very well and as long as artists foster this attitude the joke is on them.