Post #339783 by Cammo on Mon, Oct 22, 2007 8:47 AM

"Make sure you dress like you're depressed at your art shows as well. Sells more pieces when you're misteriously sad."

That's the blind little match girl syndrome. People want to buy matches from miserably sad cripples; it makes them feel less guilty for eating that Lobster Thermidore later in the evening. Buying art has become charity.

But it's a sharp knife to walk; you can't look like a bum, cause then they can't brag about meeting you at the Opening Reception and get their friends all jealous about it. Better to look dirty, extremely poor, distracted and horribly misunderstood, like a genius who's been overlooked by society. Of course Albert Einstein never looked miserable, but nobody ever thinks about this stuff too closely...