I just finished reading (well, okay, skimming) The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde.
Originally published in 1979, the scholarly book left me with these takeaway thoughts:
Most artists need to somehow "make some peace with the market."
"...the artist who wishes neither to lose his gift nor to starve his belly reserves a protected gift-sphere in which the work is created, but once the work is made he allows himself some contact with the market."
Being an artist "is most often a way of getting by, not a way of getting rich."
"No matter how the artist chooses, or is forced, to resolve the problem of livelihood, he is likely to be poor."
Do I feel better yet?
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