Where Do Successful Artists Come From?

The process that filters out our successful artists is an interesting one. Several factors are at work. The leisured class produces many artists while working class people are too busy earning a living to hope to have the free time to develop as artists. The education system convinces working class people that they have no future as artists anyway. The same education system ensures upper class kids get higher education where they are given training in the skills of art. By the time we get to the developed and producing artist (already predominantly upper class) a new factor intervenes — the marketplace.