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Don’t Create Art To Make More Money, Make Money To Create More Art
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso
It’s often said that artists don’t make art for the money, but because of their passion for it. That’s completely true but no one can keep creating without making enough money to sustain themselves and their art.
Walt Disney has an interesting way of putting this,
“We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.” – Walt Disney
The point in making our art or any product or service is not just to sell them and make money. It is to sell them to raise money for creating our next better work. As I said before it is completely true that artists make art because of their passion for it, and money for them is just the wood that fuels the fire.
The game is not about money. It’s about being better and creating better. Once you get into that mindset and create your best work possible, money will follow. Once you get the money, you have two choices. Either you can either spend it for your own luxuries or you can invest it in your next great work.
Great people choose the latter, that’s why they get remembered for their creations and not for their money.
Money gives you only a temporary rise to the top, you will fall back down once it’s over. But things you create will stay forever. You can always look back at the body of work you have created.
“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” – Nelson Mandela
Keep creating your art, keep doing what you do and don’t be afraid to make money selling them, make money to make more art. Take the money from your audience or customers in order to serve them more.
Keep in mind to always see the money that you make from your art as a promise that you make to yourself, which is to come up with better artworks in the future.
Again, you don’t have to starve in order to make good art, instead, let your art sustain itself.
