Well written, Thank you. Artist to artist, I must admit that some of the most talented people I've ever known, cut hair, drive cabs, bar-tend and wait tables. We cannot afford to live within the "starving artist" niche of glory days past. We eat, sleep, drink, dream and prepare for our art of choice, before work. Most do not have the monetary support to realise their dreams, due to life as it is. I believe if you love your art, in your soul and feel you may die without doing it, you are an artist.
Dione Emerson