David Choe is an American painter, muralist, graffiti artist and graphic novelist from Los Angeles, CA. To learn more about him and his work check out the documentary "Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe" and also on his VICE series "Thumbs UP!"
The Joe Rogan Experience
Without making light or trying to be disrespectful, like, if the things that I tried to figure out, like a game, like a video game, was sex, money, power, right?
Like, as an artist, I had subscribed to the starving artist, like, type, right?
It was, like, Top Ramen, you know, holes in your clothes, like, homeless, like, I was like, that is what a real artist is.
Until I met a successful artist, until I was like, oh, shit, like, you can have a manager and an agent and an office and, like, you can, like, not starve.
And I remember at that point, I was in my early 20s, I was like, man, people sure, like, talk about money a lot, right?
Like, it seems to be, like, this thing that causes a lot of problems in marriages and business.
And I go, it doesn't seem that hard to me.
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