This matter of art and money is not a balancing act, though. It is a dance. Our best work comes from the tension of trying to serve our craft and meet the demands of the market. This is the world we live in. Charles Dickens did some of his best work while serializing his stories to pay the bills. Vincent van Gogh’s genius may have emerged from the financial strains that ailed him, but it was his brother’s money-mindedness that kept him creating. Money and art: we need them both.
