In this article, we explore whether there are systematic patterns in Norwegian artists' attitudes to their own artistic work, income, entrepreneurship and economic profit. Furthermore, we explore what characterizes artists with different attitudes to these issues and how these attitude patterns can be understood in light of Norwegian artists' work and income situation and the implemented politics. We use multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and cluster analysis (AHC). Our MCA analysis reveals that there is a distinct opposition between market-positive and-negative artists. On the other hand, the AHC shows that only a few artists have positive attitudes to this topic, a somewhat larger proportion is described as negative, but neutral attitudes dominate. In other words, despite the fact that the majority of the artist population have low artistic income, it appears that political suggestions that artists should be entrepreneurs with the aim of economic gain, is something in which Norwegian artists are not very interested.