... BusinessAs Ethel Merman sang about the unhappiness of the workingman, they “get paid for what they do, butno applause.”Not the applause from the seats of the theater, of course, but the applause ... And most of all, it’s not art if there’s no risk. The risk isn’t the risk of financial ruin (though that might be part of it). No, the risk is the risk of rejection. Of puzzlement. Of stasis.Art ... difference. The easiest way to avoid the pain is to lull it to sleep by finding a job that numbs you. Soon the pain of the artist will be replaced by a different sort of pain, the pain of the cog, the...