“My adolescent fantasy of what artists do is that they’re bringing the truth to the people. When you get up in the morning, you have to have a narrative in your head that makes what you’re doing meaningful,” says Carroll Dunham, a painter married to Laurie Simmons, also a visual artist. “We don’t have real hours and we don’t have a boss,” adds Ms Simmons, “so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It’s transgressive in such a personal way.”

via http://www.economist.com/node/16788269.