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Johanna Taylor @ JULY 23 👻📖@johannamation.bsky.social |
“Artists must suffer to create good art” is widely romanticized, citing writers & artists from the 1700s-1930s who made masterpieces in spite of living tortured lives. Can you imagine how much *more* amazing art they could have made if they hadn’t had to create under financial/emotional duress?
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Matthew Robins
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Honestly, a grant or some sort of UBI would be very nice. I'm stressed and anxious often these days, and a huge part is the fear of never having a job and going homeless. It's made it hard this last year to finish personal projects or sit down with a sketchbook and just enjoy making.
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R.S. Riekkinen
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Yeah this is such a misinformed and harmful myth. Personally, I've really struggled to focus on drawing for the past few months, and one of the biggest reasons is the constant financial stress, plus losing the most important platform I used to reach clients. Financial stability = more & better art
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A Scary Gorgon 🐍
@scarygorgon.bsky.social
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I think about what Orson Welles had to say about this most weeks.
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Qsy
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The poster boy for this argument, Van Gogh, made his most acclaimed pieces while resting in a mental institution where he didn't have to worry about money or whatever was going on with his brain.
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Rye Zuul
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"A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf remains relevant now. People need breathing space to create, without the threat of poverty forever looming over them.
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Dan Membiela
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Yeah, I’ve seen this as a kind of “inspirational meme” and it’s just gross. Making art can be a powerful tool for expressing pain but that’s wildly different from thinking only pain can make art.
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Johanna Taylor @ JULY 23 👻📖
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I just wish there was a system where independent creators could gain eligibility for a UBI-style income, based on stuff like amount or frequency or prestige of past contract work. Like a grant, but longer lasting. Anything but the system we have now.
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