I like how S. Zoutewelle puts it:

Sure we need to survive, but let’s acknowledge the desperation under this drive to take everything we do, are or think and try to get cash for it. It reminds me of a young child who shows her father a drawing. He playfully offers her a dollar for it and 15 minutes later she comes back with 5 more. What got lost there in between the first spontaneous artwork and the 5 subsequent calculated ones?

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Why I don’t like marketing

Why don’t most artists like marketing? What is it about this activity and its underlying values that tend to clash with artistic ideals?  Answering for myself, art is based on my soul values …

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