Notice how most great creators didn’t choose between art and survival. They secured survival first, then had the freedom to create.
We romanticize the starving artist far too much. It’s hard to make great art when you’re constantly worried about rent, food, bills, and tomorrow.
Talent doesn’t disappear because you lack passion. Sometimes it disappears because poverty leaves you no room to nurture it.
Notice how most great creators didn’t choose between art and survival. They secured survival first, then had the freedom to create.
We romanticize the starving artist far too much. It’s hard to make great art when you’re constantly worried about rent, food, bills, and tomorrow.
Talent doesn’t disappear because you lack passion. Sometimes it disappears because poverty leaves you no room to nurture it.
Foreigners have been able to buy their way into South Africa on fake documents with the help of home affairs officials who treated the visa system like an open marketplace, according to the Special Investigating
Unit (SIU).
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