4 ms·To Make It as an Artist, I Recommend Having Unlimited Time and Money12 points by smacktoward 8y agowolco 8y agoOr talented with an enabler.sevensor 8y agoAll kidding aside, hasn't this always been the case? Being an artist, a historian, a novelist -- these have always been much easier for people who were already independent and financially secure. Virginia Woolf made this point a century ago.