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Why Commercial Success Can Corrupt Artistic Authenticity

I make art that sells well but it's not the art I want to make and I'm afraid if I create what matters to me I'll be poor and irrelevant.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The market's reward system can gradually lead creative people away from their authentic expression toward what generates income.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist economics — right livelihood?”

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