ART INSIGHTS Creating Wealth as a Successful Artist - John Dahlsen

You must remember that everything in lifehappens in cycles. You will have highs andlows in your career. Successful individualsare the ones who persevere and don’t getswallowed up by any negativity that thelows can bring.9. MAINTAIN INTEGRITY.Your attitude guides how you work withyour materials. I have been in exhibitionsthe world over where I have shown next toartists who have simply poured their pilesof rubbish onto the floor. I have witnessedartists hoping to get away with dramaticstatements about the environment andecology by simply grossing out the viewingaudience, making hard-hitting abrupt andblunt comments, and using lazy forms ofexpression to masquerade as art. It is moredifficult to bring the necessary amount ofartistic judgment, expertise, attention todetail and aesthetic sensibility to a projectusing recycled objects. Again and again Iexperience enormous difficulty creating aparticular piece of work, only to destroy it73