Bailout!

[Artguy]

I was told by my mentor to be a successful artist you have to be a thief and a sex fiend....

[sonofthesun]

only the pretenders worry
art takes care of itself
we may all die
but the thought shall live on

[judih]

to be a successful artist,
you have to ignore the rest of the world and let art speak

this is not so easy
and by the way, what is success?
is it popularity
or is it that impossible to define element that usually gets defined after death?

and yeah, no one said it was a bowl of cherries being an 'artist' or being human, for that matter
(but i digress)

[bennie2]

one of the most exciting liner notes I've ever seen in a rock band's record sleeve...

a band from scotland called Idlewild wrote the note in their album sleeve, "support your local poet" and it excited me.

they got glasgow's first, and current, poet lauretate to write for them... and he wrote:

Scottish Fiction by Edwin Morgan

It isn’t in the mirror, it isn’t on the page
It’s a red hearted vibration
ushing through the walls of dark imagination
Finding no equation
There’s a red road rage, but it’s not road rage
It’s asylum seekers engulfed by a grudge

Scottish friction, Scottish fiction

It isn’t in the castle, it isn’t in the mist
It’s a calling of the waters as they break to show
The new black death with reactors aglow
Do you think your security will keep you in purity?
You will not shake us off
Above or below

Scottish friction, Scottish fiction