{"id":6843,"date":"2013-03-27T09:50:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T23:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2024-07-06T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:00:03","slug":"10-things-never-to-say-to-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6843","title":{"rendered":"10 Things Never To Say To An Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/10ThingsNeverToSayToAnArtist.jpg\" alt=\"10 Things Never To Say To An Artist\" width=\"556\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/10ThingsNeverToSayToAnArtist.jpg 556w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/10ThingsNeverToSayToAnArtist-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The SFNers (Something For Nothing crowd) do this but won&#8217;t change as a result of reading this. After all, it&#8217;s all about them, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Artists, HTFU and realise this will happen, time and again. Refuse to prostitute yourselves. Convert every disappointment to a resolve to excel at your art so more people will appreciate your art and those with money who appreciate it will pay more for your work.<\/p>\n<p>To non-artists, an artist receives pay in three ways. Cash, admiration and word of mouth. Make sure you don&#8217;t short change them on any of the three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SFNers (Something For Nothing crowd) do this but won&#8217;t change as a result of reading this. After all, it&#8217;s all about them, isn&#8217;t it? Artists, HTFU and realise this will happen, time and again. Refuse to prostitute yourselves. Convert every disappointment to a resolve to excel at your art so more people will appreciate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6843\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10 Things Never To Say To An Artist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration","category-wealth-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54881,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions\/54881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}