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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
it would be nice if there was some kind of nationalised system for everyone to get free money to persue their hobby, but until then i don't think it's fair to give money to some and not to others when it could be spent on something more beneficial to the public at large (health care for example). something that really disgusts me is seeing people who've tried to get funding or grants behave ungraciously when they don't make the cut, as if they are entitled to swan about and indulge themselves at the expense of the taxpayer.
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I'm in favour of a limited and highly rationalised funding of the arts but I absolutely agree with you about much of the art world's sheer level of expectancy when it comes to receiving such funding. I know a number of people who occupy the title of 'artist' but who spend considerably more time securing grants than they do actually creating something in the studio. And the
tantrums I've witnessed when one of their claims has been rejected are quite unbelievable. A lot of these people really do need to be asked a very straightforward question: what exactly is it that you
do?