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By the way, I wrote this *before* reading Elizabeth Gilbert's extraordinary memoir Big Magic. I felt vindicated nearly to tears during a passage in which she dispenses essentially the same advice as above (only more eloquently of course). To paraphrase, she claims that asking your art to pay your electric bill puts such an unfair burden on your art it can actually kill it. You owe it to your art to protect it from such burdens, meaning that the more successful you are in your non-art world, the healthier your art will be. Love you, Liz.
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May 16, 2022 07:51AM
By the way, I wrote this *before* reading Elizabeth Gilbert's extraordinary memoir Big Magic. I felt vindicated nearly to tears during a passage in which she dispenses essentially the same advice as above (only more eloquently of course). To paraphrase, she claims that asking your art to pay your electric bill puts such an unfair burden on your art it can actually kill it. You owe it to your art to protect it from such burdens, meaning that the more successful you are in your non-art world, the healthier your art will be. Love you, Liz.
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