“I would argue that more patrons are willing to be patrons than artists are willing to be artists. Responsible patrons are put off by the bohemian posturing. If they are not put off by it, then they are funding the decadence of intellectual rot. If they run across a little lord byron in skinny jeans, and they go ahead and provide him with the funds to continue to brush his hair out of his eyes, they are making the desolate waste of our under-achievement worse” (Rules, pp. 257-258).
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Most jobs involve working for others, providing what others want. How many artists want to produce their own stuff, exert their own creativity? Just get jobs for others producing what they want giving them ideas which they can accept or reject, and artist to your heart’s content on your own time. And if you become the next Monet well and good, and if it is just junk….
(Though in our current culture the next Leonardos may be ignored for the colour blind bohemian.)
Speaking of which, about 90% of the people arrested in protests in Minneapolis fit the “white trust fund baby” demographic. Yes, funding those who do not have vim and vigor produces nasty consequences, like 21 injured police officers in this case. People need to regain their ability to tell would-be artists “this is garbage.”