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girl, you gotta be ambitious. you can do it!
girl so ambitious
I did not know how I would make a living when I began making art. I felt like I was in a fog, groping around, and trying things. Doing this caused the fog to dissipate until it was clear how I would make a living.
How to Make a Living as an Artist
Vincent Van Gogh on the accumulation of small things:
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”
Do not wait around to be chosen.
How to Make a Living as an Artist
A classic pattern: you try hard to write like someone else, but then you mess up and write in some stupid other way, and that ends up being what people relate to. I wish I had messed up sooner.
Olaf Rude • Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog
But most of the time, there is no one to help you. You must think about your art practice as a business.
How to Make a Living as an Artist
Ultimately what you are looking for is a business model — a configuration of the knobs — that is profitable enough to support one employee, you.
How to Make a Living as an Artist
Doris Lessing on reading:
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that
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In Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson describes eros as “To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
Lauren Hall • Desire Is Dead
"Business" is simply a lens through which one can look at something. It is not the only lens. You can look at art through an aesthetic lens (how does it look?), a technical lens (how is it made?), an emotional lens (how does it make you feel?), an interpretive lens (what does it mean?), and a political lens (what does it say about our world?).
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