Your takes: How should art and money relate?
Artist as Content Creator: Two full-time jobs in one, with one that may require the sacrifice of the art. The content creator is incentivised to constantly share to get paid, while the artist isn’t obligated to share anything to create. The act of creating is the purpose itself—like ripe grapes that fall when they are ready, the artist’s work
... See morePeople 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
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Some artists tend to think making money is either a system you sell out to or something to be avoided altogether. But in reality, it’s neither. If you don’t make money, you won’t have any art to make. We must seek to better understand the business of being an artist. Ignoring this reality is the fastest route to stop creating altogether. To be an
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