money.
pay them, they’ll continue making art.
fuck you, pay me.
when artists realize money is to be made they find themselves influenced by something else other than original muse, emotion and ego.
I can’t eat art.
their art now has one of the worlds most common muses.
money.
no longer love or beauty or hate or epiphany or tragedy or romance or .
fuck you, pay me.
soon artists will incorporate money into their art.
I can’t eat art.
singing about it. then it is only a matter of time before performance artists start using money as outfits and stage props. gangsters.
it will show up in movies, books, pop culture.
money.
soon fans will become just as obsessed with money as the artist they fan over.
fresh artists, once open souled, doe-eyed, innocent youths with a mind for creation, will feel the hunger for money and realize that creation is work and worth money, losing that cherub glow and singing of splendors of the heart, no more, forever.
fuck you, pay me.
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Unfortunately you can’t, no.
I don’t really see art as something to sell.. it’s your own personal expression and it says something about you, and your perceptions.
Selling it requires a facade of a piece of art, that really isn’t art, because it’s not you. It’s a commodity.
So I decided not to try and be an artist anymore. Not as a career or livelihood. I think everyone is an artist, but not in the sense that you sell it. Only that everyone uses some form of media to express themselves.
And in a capitalist system you have to sell it. Because otherwise you would basically have to work your ass off doing something you’re not too fond of, making too much of a product because capitalism=overproduction. You’ll be the first to be laid off, because you are dispensable.
In my socialist utopia, people would have time for art because they wouldn’t be busy creating too much of anything and the economy would actually be democratically planned according to what people actually need and want and it would be distributed evenly as needed, not hoarded. And people wouldn’t have to work as much, because we wouldn’t be overproducing.
I actually shouldn’t call it a utopia. It’s not impractical at all, actually. Just a lot of political pressure and a lot of major changes from the populace.
And that is not the USSR under Stalin.
Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Only then you will find out that money cannot be eaten
I just ate money for breakfast.
I’m about to eat your guitar.
It’s like the rapture.
I did read this once before you posted the link on my blog. So many people get stuck in the world of moneymoneymoney. Forgetting what is really important on the way. It’s sad to see it surround us.
Man are you a fricken loser or what? Do you have to cry yourself to sleep each night because you know you are such a loser?
yes, i fricken do. ftw.