“An artist is a businessperson - they hate it, but it’s true -’
Oh you hit one out of the park. I have a disabled (truly not a fake disability) liberal friend that is an artist. He paints some hideous portraits that supposedly show the human condition. He shows that work in galleries and such in Western Pennsylvania. He gets raves from the critics but seldom sells any of those works. He supports himself by painting generic landscapes that he sells for $100.00 each at flea markets and that he signs with a different name. He can sell 5 of those a week and they take him about 1 to 1.5 hours to paint.
He complains that nobody buys his real art and how he feels like a prostitute selling “over the sofa pictures”
He got sort of miffed when I suggested that art is what the patron buying it says it is rather than what the artist says it is.