Undoubtedly, this post will be controversial. Nevertheless, I want to write once again about my attitude towards art commerce.
I can’t entirely agree with Emile Zola, who wrote to Paul Cezanne, in one of his letters of the 16th of April, 1860, that:
(…) commercial artists, those who paint in the morning for their bread in the evening, they have a miserable existence.
I am not a commercial artist. I do not take pictures to earn a living. Moreover, I do not manage the www.adammazek.com website to be able to monetize it. The only regular art commerce activity I do is using my profile on Artfinder.com. Still, I think that most commercial artists who run their businesses do not have a miserable life. Am I a commercial artist? Definitely not. Am I content that I managed to get access to the Artfinder? Yes, because I already sold my photographs to the US and Great Britain via this platform. But, would it change anything regarding my artistic passion if I would not sell pictures via the Artfinder platform? No, it would not change anything. Selling photographs is not the aim of my creative activity. I want to merely have fun while doing all my stuff.
Moreover, I want to inspire other people that they also can be artists.
I believe that thanks to my blog, I will endure in art history. I am convinced that if I would focus on money earning, becoming a part of art history would not be possible. The truth is that I want to be only a small part of art commerce. I do not care how many photographs I will sell during my lifetime. I care about art itself. It’s not the case with my photographic activity. I work as an accountant, and that’s how I earn for living. Taking photos, writing texts, preparing new editions of “Diaries” is a hobby to me. Thanks to this, I can relax and enjoy my life more sufficiently. Speaking shortly: art commerce is something that I do not care about at all.
