the way of the artist-entrepreneur — kening zhu

Embrace the business aspects of your career as an integral part of your identity as an artist, not something in opposition to it.

People need to eat and pay the rent. “An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint,” said artist Ben Shahn. “A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.” Whether an artist makes money off his work or not, money has to come from somewhere, be it a day job, a wealthy spouse, a trust f