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One sentiment I hear quite often on this website is "real artists don't do art for money."
Putting aside the adorable naivete of this comment, the underlying assumption is that artists who sell their work are selling a part of themselves, in a way devaluing the very thing they create. To some, creation is the kind of thing only the gods do, and a monetary transaction sullies that divinity.
I can understand the allure of this opinion. It's nice to think of yourself as above such a petty thing as money. But I am more than a creator. I'm a consumer, and what I consume is food, and food is how I live long enough to create art in the first place. And even if I could make my money in other ways (for example, smuggling yaks), I wouldn't want to live in a world where every single bag, bottle and box of sustenance was devoid of artwork, nothing more than a flat, boring piece of typography (and it would have to be comic sans; every other font is a work of art in and of itself!). I don't think I'd like being treated to advertisements that amounted to "Buy this product" because no artists were consulted, no writers commissioned, to make that ad pleasing to the eye and worthy of my brain's attention.
These same folks more often than not believe artists are special, chosen, that if everyone could create art that art would start to lose its meaning.
There's something kind of distasteful and selfish about this attitude to me. I think of art as a language that makes the world more beautiful, or at least a little more interesting. Wherever you find it (and you can find it in places you least suspect) it's telling a story and doing its job. If you see commercial art as soulless and plastic and fake, fine by me, but I wouldn't care for the alternative - a world where art was planted like a flag at the top of a mountain and only the upper echelons of society could reach it and see it and understand it. Art on advertisements and soda cans and children's books may not seem culturally relevant or even always pleasing to the eye, but it has a purpose. It brings art to the non-artist. It makes life a little nicer.
(Besides...I wouldn't want to work in any other field. Getting to do what I love for a living is awesome, even if I am considered a sellout for it.)
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OR MAYBE I don't know what I'm talking about.
I don't even mind the weird looks I'm now getting because I couldn't have said this better myself.
I think it's a common misconception that in order to be a true artist, one has to be a starving artist, and for me, this just seems so pretentious. To be completely honest, I've never been much inspired by the works of Van Gogh or Picasso. I know there will many who will likely see what I'm about to say as blasphemy, but I've always found most artwork done by these artists to be...well...bland. Don't get me wrong--I understand how others can like it and that there are probably very good reasons as to why they are so adored, but their work has never really...done it for me. I'm more greatly inspired by the concept art done for video games and films--in fact, there is little to me that I find more inspiring than that.
But I digress. Point being: Yeah. I wholeheartedly agree.
I don't know how alike we are, but if it were me, it would have taken be a while just to sum this up as elegantly and succinctly as you have done. I couldn't agree with you more, and I hope your art puts a smile on every face that sees it and a million dollars in your pocket! c: