I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if … - Tony Kushner

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Tony Kushner

I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist, then art is what you do, whether or not you're paid for doing it; it is what you do, not what you are. I regard artist not as a description of temperament but as a category of profession, of vocation.

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