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[hunter]

33. My parents are artists who always had day jobs until my dad retired with a pension.

Now my parents are full time artists.

My sister has been a television actor on and off for about forty years now, since she was a teen. It's never paid her bills.

Professional sports is a similar art. The vast majority of high school athletes are never going to support themselves as professionals athletes.

My parents generally had jobs related to their art. My sister doesn't.

My kids are artists with day jobs. One of my kids sometimes sells poetry, of all things.

Art is something humans just do. We humans are all naturally born artists.

I don't think it's the aspirations that drive us forward, it's the inhibitions that hold us back. The inhibitions start with parents who tell their children art is a waste of time and societies that punish people for their art.

I was fortunate to grow up in a household immersed in art. So was my wife. We raised our own children in the same sort of environment.

Somehow, without any explicit training, our children learned to provide food and shelter for themselves while pursuing their arts.

In a very real sense every aspiring artist is competing against art created as an automated industrial process. Nothing has changed.