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...beggars can't be choosers.
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I disagree. Unlesss someone is literally starving in the streets I think we have to be very choosy in what we paint, and how.
I have recently put up little signs in my office and in my studio that say "Quality, Not Quantity". They are reminders to me that my goal is to strive toward creating much better work than I do now. My goal should not be to try and get as many paintings in the hands of clients as possible, or to get each step completed as quickly as possible.
Seeing those notes to myself often stops me in my tracks and makes me do things like spending an extra day going over some reference photos to see if they are as good as they can be. It makes me choose to begin a painting over again in order to have it on linen and not canvas or to create it at the right size if it was too small or too large to begin with.
I believe that "Quality, not Quantity" is the path toward my financial success as well as my personal satisfaction with my work.