ART INSIGHTS Creating Wealth as a Successful Artist - John Dahlsen

it’s good to acknowledge it. There is noneed to turn the subject away from yourown work, however, particularly if theother artists who have influenced you arecontemporaries. This can have the effectof dampening the conversation about yourown work.I have had many influences, sometimesdirectly sometimes indirectly. But I neverfocus this as a major element in my work.I feel that I have always followed my ownmomentum and that my body of work isnot a derivative of someone else’s.85