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[cf2princessawnw]

By someone who was paralyzed and lost everything but built it all back up tenfold. A simple youtube commenter going by the name Blaze High. Someone else in the thread asked how she did it, and she said some simple honest things about not giving up, working hard to build strength back, having to be creative in building a different business now, but

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[gottawonder]

Yes, I relate a lot to what you've said about creative mode vs. entrepreneurial mode. I resist selling any of my work, because I don't want it to shape my vision in any way. I don't want to be the person who paints or makes pottery based on whether or not people like it or buy it. Van Gogh was like this. He was mostly supported by his brother, and didn't sell much of his work because he didn't want money to influence how he painted. Then, you look at many other artists, and they painted religious works for the church, because that's who had enough money to hire them. Who knows what they would have painted if they weren't trying to earn a living. I feel like Louis L. Hay wasn't quite in the realm of creating art, though I'm sure money did influence how she marketed her books. It can be hard to know if someone really has your best interest at heart when they also are earning a living from helping you.

That said, I admire her for believing in herself enough to ask for money for her advice. In many ways, the path she took with her life is EXACTLY what she's telling people to do for themselves; to believe in themselves, to believe that the deserve success and monetary rewards for their efforts, that money isn't evil, that we all have talents, that it's okay to expect payment and recognition, and so on. Louise went through being broke and having bad relationships and so on, and had spent a lot of time helping other people before she wrote her books and allowed herself to ask for money for her insight.

It seems like a lot of artists (though not people who make movies or music?) toe this funny line where their work is seen as less legitimate by some people if they make money doing it, even as other people will only see their work as legitimate if is also very expensive. Right? No one has any idea if Damien Hirst is an actual artist or not, because it seems like the central concern is how expensive his art has become. It's worth millions just because...it's worth millions. The very worth of his art makes it divisive.

[bcegda]

I'm prob one of the few ppl on earth who actually got something out of Damien Hirst - same with Yoko - I grokked what he was doing and it affected me immensely (the cow things) but point well taken. I have lots of bookmarks on how commodity high dollar expectations have completely turned the 'high art' world topsy turvy, to where it's more about celebrity and possibly shock value and defo trendiness who is actually selling or not

an interesting book is Art and Fear, on the perils of Making Art, they talk about this sort of issue, and creativity in general, etc. Not a big book but powerful