Starving artist?

I often hear people say that artist is a bad profession to choose. You can't make a living doing it. I agree, but only if it comes to strait forward art. By that I mean painting on canvas and trying to sell it to people to fill out   walls in their living rooms.

Art is involved everywhere. Look around you, everything that is created is created by a designer. There are countless professions that require artistic skills, taste and creative mind.

It is only a legend that artists starve. Maybe they did 300 years ago when there were no websites, films, magazines, books with colour, commercials etc. that are produced massively now a days. Do film makers, architects, illustrators, photographers and graphic artists starve? I don't think so. They find a way to make a living like everybody else. No one asks an engineer: "Aren't you afraid you aren't gonna get a job?" But people constantly ask artists because there is a general idea that art doesn't sell.

Well, next time you have that question in your mind, just think how many movie tickets you bought this year.