ART INSIGHTS Creating Wealth as a Successful Artist - John Dahlsen

Let’s be clear about one fact: the numberof artists who achieve runaway successin their lifetimes and have multi-milliondollarincomes as a result of great fame isrelatively small. Many artists go into thebusiness of making art equipped only withthe desire to make good work and the hopefor wealth and fame.Unless you develop strategy you will alwaysbe wondering when you are going to havethe success that you know is possible.As an initial roadmap, I’d like to list afew qualities and values that are worthcultivating for the sake of strategic thinkingand overall, long-term success.56