Being artistically ahead of one’s time does not pay

Evidence

Ah, but there’s the rub, I was always the artist ahead of my time and never made enough money not to need a fucking day job. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 223

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Early avant-garde artists subsisted on menial minimum-wage seasonal jobs — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 210; Creators must withdraw from exposure to make lasting culture — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 868; Art’s autonomy paradoxically depends on the very commodity economy it negates — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 118 (+1 more)

Related

• Early avant-garde artists subsisted on menial minimum-wage seasonal jobs (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Early avant-garde artists subsisted on menial minimum-wage seasonal jobs #exemplifies (0.85) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 210
• Creators must withdraw from exposure to make lasting culture #qualifies (0.72) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 868
• Art’s autonomy paradoxically depends on the very commodity economy it negates #qualifies (0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 118