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The trope of starving artists is real, but not because people dont want to pay artists. It's because artists are retarded businessmen.

Exhibit A: I want to buy a print of "Loneliness In The Night" by Valery Rybakow. He's an excellent impressionist painter from Belorussia. I have money. I know exactly what I want. I am literally the take-my-money meme. Like most artists, this guy is a retarded businessman. If this guy made toilet plungers or bottle caps, it'd take me under 30 seconds to find a way to buy them. But he's an artist, so after THREE HOURS I have yet to find a way to buy a print of the painting.

Dear artists: stop making fifty half-assed social media accounts and make a way to take my money.

The trope of starving artists is real, but not because people dont want to pay artists. It's because artists are retarded businessmen. Exhibit A: I want to buy a print of "Loneliness In The Night" by Valery Rybakow. He's an excellent impressionist painter from Belorussia. I have money. I know exactly what I want. I am literally the take-my-money meme. Like most artists, this guy is a retarded businessman. If this guy made toilet plungers or bottle caps, it'd take me under 30 seconds to find a way to buy them. But he's an artist, so after THREE HOURS I have yet to find a way to buy a print of the painting. Dear artists: stop making fifty half-assed social media accounts and make a way to take my money.

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I know many artists due to family, they absolutely do not understand the basics of marketing or sales. I even setup online shops for them, which they fail to maintain and execute. I no longer offer to do this because they're not interested in doing what's required to sell their work.

Personally, I own more art than I have space. It now stacks up in my basement. The only reason I buy it is because I know them. I have no clue how much this is worth, but it doesn't matter because I won't be selling it anytime soon. When I die, it will all probably go at auction in an estate sale for a few dollars each. People won't have a clue. LOL.

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I assume you have a personal connection to it. If it that important to you then keep it, if you can part with some of it... Let it go. It deserves to be free. Just find people that appreciate it.

I don't want to be that jackass that somehow finds your basement in 15 years and its full of amazing stuff that is basically half ruined because of a flood or something.

Keep the things that are important to you, let the rest go. You are sending happiness and creativity out into the world. Some people might call me stupid for this but a "simple" work of art can create a new artist.

[Edit] I have a over 100 year old painting created by a great, great grand mother. Not going to give details, however it is very important to me.