The artist life.

I spend more money on art equipment than I do on food.  I make sure my dogs are fed well, I have three, but apart from that, art is my everything...I feel I couldn't continue to live if I didn't plough my efforts into creating art, and I continue to hope that I will manage to sell my work in order to continue to produce it...I will never be rich, but so long as I continue to survive, I have to be happy with that. In my heart, I think that this is the common experience of the artist, both now and in the past...It's sad, but real. I wish there was a way that those, with money, that love art, could contribute to the continuation of working artists...other than just buying the occasional painting.  I don't want money for nothing, just a break from impending homelessness in order to concentrate on creating work that might bring pleasure to life.