I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.
Anything that exposes the arts more, that gives us an outlet to make money and also do what we enjoy doing as artists and to connect with the fans, I'm all for it.
Write for pleasure and publish for money.
There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.
Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.
I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.
People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.
To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
If you were a painter and a rock and roll musician and weren't established in either - to be an artist today you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.
It's not a problem if 20,000 people heard my music for free, but it's a huge problem if 20,000 people never heard my music.
People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
If I do need to make money suddenly, I prefer to just draw something I want to draw and have someone else sell it for me on the Internet.
I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!
I will paint for money any time.
I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.
The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays.
