The Red Vineyard.
What is the difference between an artist and an entertainer?
The entertainer is a capitalist – plays for his bread – like a busker at a bus station, filling his hat to the brim with quarters. He lives on his work with the pressure to please and to put time – most of his time – into his magnum opera.
The artist knows eventually no one or others may reap financial benefit from his work. He toils in part-time labor he detests, or he must be supported by the government or a patron. There is no deadline or pressure, except for time passing into oblivion.
All performers are some ratio of the two, but most are mainly artists, as the horde of “art” collects in the corner of a room while the artisan is away, using his hands, not his head, to maintain a living wage.
