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RE: Artists Don't Eat Compliments.
You raise an interesting but often discussed point about art as an intellectual pursuit (not unlike science) and art as a business (how we pay our bills). I really prefer to keep the two types of art separate as they usually end up causing me to create different things. Perhaps that's just me because art as an intellectual pursuit pushes myself personally and has meaning for me only, whereas art as a business seems to be based on external meanings and values that you transact with other people. Would love to know what your thoughts are on this. I happen to think every profession is equally important but that's not how our work is valued, and unfortunately in the blockchain economy it is not different (at the moment).
I think arts are like any other profession... medicine, cooking, law, builder. I am certainly not sure why people think that by doing arts you have to be poor or arts by itself is not a serious profession.
I can assure you that arts can be WAY harder and more frustrating than any other profession. And if done right, it can pay off more more than what many lawyers and doctors earn.
Although for getting to that level you gotta sacrifice a lot and do a loooot of work without seeing any earning for it. But the truth is that you do because you love it. And there comes a point where you ens up doing it so well that prople want to pay you for that.
This is why i always recommend to do whatever you love to so, money will eventually come.