Fine Artists
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There are people who go into an art career because they have the financial status/backing to do so. There are plenty of "trust fund baby artists," a few have talent and many others don't. Design and art fall into the "anyone" can do it category. Look at Van Gogh, his brother always paid for his paints and living arrangements while he never sold a thing. In Basquiat, Rene says something like "No one wants to be part of a generation that disregards another Van Gogh." To be an artist today really is a luxury, although there have been artists like De Kooning who lived a very thrifty lifestyle, I think that particular formula in the current times is over. NYC used to have tons of cheap rent, drugs, drug money, music scenes, etc Those days are very different from today in my opinion. Especially where artists in San Francisco lived, good luck places here start at about a million!