5 Things Successful Artists Understand (That Most Don’t)

Hello, dear readers and subscribers. Today, we discuss 5 interesting statements/findings from the excellent book "Art/Work" by Heather Darcy Bhandari and Jonathan Melber. As mentioned in the video, this is not a paid advertisement, but a book that currently sits at the top of my personal list of best books for artists—as a result, I strongly recommend reading it.

You can find the book in question "Art/Work" on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/4qdHfc5
The article on how much money contemporary artists make can be found here: https://www.contemporaryartissue.com/how-much-money-do-visual-or-contemporary-artists-make/
You can find the artist statement generator mentioned in this video here: https://www.contemporaryartissue.com/product/artist-statement-tool-spreadsheet-chatgpt/
And the two other books I mentioned at the end of this video are also available on Amazon.
Everything for Art: https://amzn.to/3MymCsu
How To Become A Successful Artist: https://amzn.to/3MC5DW6

Have a great day everyone and chat soon!

All my best,
Julien

This is the most true performance art, this guy being lissening yhis way by this dog.

They did the study on successful Artists. Successful Artists are the ones who get early exhibitions at quality galleries.

This means if you don't you need a day job and living a simple life. Also find a cheap place to live. And accept you are doing art because you love it and it's who you are.

Without y dog nobody would do trust y😂

Great info as usual. Good job and thank you. LOVE the dog staring at you.

Better to sell drugs instead of working.

Number 1 is exhibit A for having a commercial aspect to your work. So many artists think that's a dirty secret but the alternative is working a day job because you don't make enough as an artist! After going thru an MFA, the museum level contemporary art world is hit or miss in my opinion, based on whatever society is talking about. So if you don't align with that conversation it's going to be near impossible. It's a great time to aim for museums if you want to talk about gender, race or identity, especially if you are a minority, otherwise it's going to be really tough from what I've seen.

This was such a great video! about being an artist Very informative, straight to point and somehow very uplifting. I especially love the part about rejection and failure. Rejection is something that happens and we all need to deal with it. Failure is something we decide on our own, because we are the ones who create our definition of a success.

Great advice .Thankyou

This video has nothing to do with the thumbnail whatsoever

I made no apologies or had any shame at working a full time office/admin job and being an artist (I'm 67 retired now). I took my watercolours and hung them up in my cubicle and if someone was interested in my oil paintings (I had large paintings) I hung the paintings in their office. I made some sales but what was really interesting was the psychological effect real art, as opposed to posters/prints/reproductions has on people. They got used to looking at my art and when I removed/moved the piece for some reason, they asked me where the painting was and why was it removed. A few bought when I told them I had taken the piece back. When I sell anything now I tell people to hang the piece of art at eye level, where they can see it everyday, all day. Not to sit with it behind your back.

After 60 years I believe that artists create art because we have to create art. If recognition comes, it is a mixed blessing. Focus on the art and enter judged shows without too much concern for outcome. When an artist pursues money, the art stagnates or becomes forced. Success comes from the joy of creating, not deposits in the bank.

Thanks for the informative video. 8-10 hours per week making work though?! Good lord, I hope that people do not believe this is adequate.

I feel as though this channel is developing an increasingly wide gap between reality and content.

YOUR FUR BUDDY IS A GREAT LISTENER 😊😊😊😊

Brilliant!

Cute doggy ❤

Part of why I like creating art and would love to do it full time is because there’s very little human interaction involved in the actual process. I hate all the networking, customer service and social media stuff that’s supposedly involved.
I think that’s one of the main problems with the industry world and the creative world is that they are trying to force people with totally different temperaments to be industrious sales people when continuous production and social things are draining and uncomfortable for most creative artists

That "failure vs rejection" quote is GOLD. Didn't get into that big show? Didn't hear back from that curator? That's how it is sometimes. You gotta keep on keepin' on.

Interesting how you make some good points from the book ..but we all watch your dog

The dogs gaze sold this video

Thank you Julien! You have a good assistant😂

That dog!!!!!!!! How am I supposed to live without ever getting the chance to kiss that dog?!!!!!!!!

Great advice thanks :)