There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
You don't make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable.
The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it.
Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.
It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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