I can't work. I'VE TRIED! When I work ...I want to die....This is the mind of a real artist.
HALT!
An artist produces art, employed or otherwise.
Where's yer art, R3?
That's not accurate. Once an artist becomes successful, he/she may produce art, in the attempt to cash in.
Most of the time, artists are too busy doing drugs, and fucking up their lives, or getting stuck in mental hospitals, than they are making art. This problem is one of the top things that frustrates art dealers. The art dealers may be wanting the art, but the artists are sitting around producing nothing. If they do make something, it will just be some crap, and the art dealer will have to try to figure out a way to get the artist to make better things.
Those of us that have no art dealer are mostly getting drunk and high on drugs, and trying to get laid. Since nobody wants to support the unknown artist, there is no point in making too much stuff that will not sell, and will have to be stored in yer parents' basement. I told my artist friend the other day, "Don't make too much stuff...it will just clutter up the place, because you can't sell it, and that will make you more crazy."
The beauty of Cig N' Pubes, The Ice Tail, Dawning Of The Opera Gloves, and things like that, is that it does not take up much space.
I'm going in a new direction, though. I want to start making money. This book I am reading about "A Life In The Arts" says "make peaches, not potatoes". I am convinced. I used to make potatoes, but now I am going to make "peaches", and sell my "peaches" to the rich divorced women that I will also be having sex with.
This is my new strategy.