You’re putting a lot of words in my mouth.
I don’t think an artist has to starve to be a pure artist. But it is a fact that an artist who wants to make a living from art in a capitalist society has to make art that the market will pay for, one way or another. To me this is a bad thing.
It’s not about a mythical past where artists were free, because I agree there wasn’t one. I’m looking at things in light of a potential future in which we can all be free, though it feels a very long way from here
