I agree with ams, but in all honesty it's with a grain of salt. What I think is that while art such as drawing/writing is important and can essentially be a well paying career, I feel that very few people get paid well for their work. There are lots of highly appraised authors and artists who make millions, but the number of young people these days who want to turn their artistic hobby into a career, and end up failing, is kind of crazy. And alot of those artists who do manage to make a career out of their work, still don't get paid nearly as well as they'd like. I feel like the art fields are highly saturated. When I went to highschool, I knew way over 15 different people who wanted art careers. About half of them wanted to be tattoo artists, which is one of the most difficult fields IMO, alot of them were girls who wanted to work in cosmetology (which doesn't always pay well), and others wanted random careers as traditional artists or photographers. Those jobs don't always pay the bills like you'd think. My point is, that art careers are real careers, and they're important to iur society, but too many people spend too much time trying to do something that they probably just couldn't survive doing. The name "starving artist" is a great example of this. When you take your art too seriously, and don't focus on actually making the money you need. Mosy artists don't gain the fame they seek until after they die anyways.
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Tldr; Art careers are important, and can end up being fruitful, but artists are oversaturated these days, and many of them have a difficult time making a living.
Maybe I'm contradicting my previous statements, but this is what I honestly think.
