You know, when we think of art, one thing us guys on the left need to get over is the idea of being a slave to commerce.

Not that there’s nothing wrong with commerce. Commerce is prostitution and prostitution is commerce – we know that. But when we think of art … our ideas come from more than a century ago, from people who did art for God, or from people who did art for the fantastically wealthy.

Democracy killed art. We don’t make art for gods or super-wealthy patrons anymore. We do it for ourselves. Unfortunately we have to make a living out of it.

zimmerman image appreciatively nicked from http://thebosshog.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/agreed/

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