Art: Hard Work and Dangerous

Knottyboy put up a new video of him and Tony doing Raku. This is dangerous stuff! My small little mind was challenged about artists in general. When I think of "artist" these words come to mind: tempermental, skinny (they are all starving), weird, passionate, party-goers and drinkers of exotic wine. I never thought "master of the flame". No gay jokes here even though K said something about 'flamers'. That reminds me of Homer Simpson who said: "I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals flaming" but I digress. So being me I did research and talked to some of my artist friends to ask them what their whimpy art includes thinking K and T have the market on danger and hard work. Sorry boys, but apparently most art is a life of danger or at least toil. My friend had to use a loom for many many hours to make a small table cloth and she said it hurts your back leaning over for hours and she got lots of blisters on her hands "but the colors and textures you can make are fablulous!" Another told me he uses a blow torch for his metal sculptures. His wife doesn't like that but his sons think it's cool. I am going to call my friend in CA who is an art professor and see what she has to say about art. Anymore artists out there with stories to challenge my preconceived ideas? So far no one has challenged the tempermental title or the weird title.