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author:: Martine Nyx
full title:: Art and Profit
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Highlights
- Necessity and authenticity are the two ingredients essential to creating art.
- It is only when an artist experiences the unstoppable urge to create a specific artwork, and when they are being truly authentic to themselves, that one has a true work of art
- All they need to do is keep working, keep pushing, and somehow avoid the financial and mental strain that comes with creating art for a living while still being either completely or relatively unknown.
- Society’s overwhelming consensus that an artist will eventually rise to fame and recognition on their own, solely by virtue of their artistry, is a form of dismissiveness at best
- An artist is seldom serving exclusively themselves, they are serving, first and foremost, their public.