I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.
In 1908, you could easily earn $20 to $200 as a cartoonist. What's amazing is that it's still true!
I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive.
What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot of it because it seems like an extension of the fashion trade and the stock market.