The term 'starving artist' is really just a bogus trope.

In 2023, artists and creatives are the ones who have the most self-employment and entrepreneurial options available to them.

What's more, the only people I hear talking about starving artists aren't even artists themselves.

This notion is just a way to ...

1. Devalue art's role in our lives - because most adults have been told it's not a viable path to anything (despite the reality is that all of us love art of some sort, have experienced it in our lives, and save hard-earned money to spend on it).

2. Push 'safe' conformity - regardless of culture, there is a global view about what professions are respectable, profitable.

3. To rationalize the two points above.

The reality is that the artists I know are some of the most employable, paid, talented, determined, creative, and entrepreneurial people I know.

There's too many of us out here disproving the point for you to hear me echo it in any way.

Art = possibility