Hi! What you're talking about here has been on my mind a lot lately - the whole topic of whether it's actually a good financial decision to do the whole major gallery thing for art (fellow artist here.)I had a similar conflict when I first read the book a few years ago.
Being an artist at heart I wanted to paint all day, be a world famous artist and make millions. Art is my passion.
I put the book aside and focused on my passion. No money came in. I ended up going back to work for someone else and hating it.
Picked up the book again and gave it another shot. Now I work for myself and allocate time in the day to create art and focus on my passion. I'm not a millionaire yet but I make enough already to have time to paint when I want or take days off.
Think of it like a ladder.
Building a freedom business is just one rung on the ladder to your dreams.
While it's possible to become successful at your passions first, the odds of that are slim without business knowledge anyways.
Even successful passion business, artist, musician, etc started somewhere else first usually anyways.
I didn't like my odds of either being the next Picasso who lived rich as an artist or dying broke like Van Gogh. Also didn't want to beg galleries to show my work and be at the mercy of the art elite. Instead, I decided to commit as many years now as it takes to build a freedom business that can will give me all the money and freedom I need to never need a gallery or be told what I should paint.
I've learned to love business as much as art. And have grown faster as artist using the business principles I've learned.
Just my 2 cents.
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I was actually doing a lot of research on making some in-roads with the Gagosian galleries in NY before reading The Millionaire Fastlane , just because they make such hugely expensive sales. But what makes me uneasy about it is that the gallery has all the control, and I don't want to kiss their a$$ only for what's "in" at the moment to change.
So I'm brainstorming business ideas and prototyping an invention at the moment, trying to do something like what you're doing. If you don't mind me asking, what business did you end up going into?
p.s. thank you for sharing.
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