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How financial pressure affects creative confidence

My partner keeps asking when I will make money from my paintings and I am starting to ask myself the same question

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More people experience this than they realize.

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External doubts about the value of creative work can infiltrate the artist's own relationship to their practice, corrupting intrinsic motivation.

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“Where Are You with The examined creative life — Murasaki's synthesis?”

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