There are three reasons I’ve seen for why artists won’t ask for what they want:

1. They already expect rejection, so why waste the time.

2. They think asking is a kind of weakness; a lessing of individuality.

3. In some well-hidden corner of self, they secretly believe…

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I recently finished negotiations on a large equine sculpture for a major developer. Erik, a sculptural genius, is working with me on this. To date, we’ve had three meetings, and have invested about 8 hours of our time-most of that coming from Erik in the form of renderings. And all of this we did without…

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