Most Recent Submissions about art marketing, selling art, artist websites and inspiration

 "Licensing is a clever way to get paid for the same piece of art over and over again. This means, you paint it once and it continues to make money for you, even after you're dead!" (Maria Brophy )

 "Some painters nail the exact colour they need on the first go. I'm not one of them." (Robert Genn)

 "If you wholesale your work, you may be exhibiting at trade shows. You might also do some prospecting yourself to land new accounts with gallery and store buyers. But sooner or later, you will probably be thinking about hiring sales reps to extend your reach to new territories and retailers you would never sell to otherwise." (Carolyn Edlund)

 "Copying an Old Master painting is an excellent way to sharpen your skills." (Sue Favinger Smith)

 "All life is constant change, the arising of a form and then its passing." (Susan Pitcairn)

 "Shake things up. Take a class, connect with someone new, read...a lot and get a new perspective. Any and all of these can help move you back into the creative space you want to be in." (Lucrecer Braxton)

 "Creative Commons (CC) licences provide an alternative to standard copyright for those who want to encourage others to freely share their work, under certain conditions. Version 3.0 has been in place for five years now, and the Commons is trying to boost uptake by making the licences more flexible, more easily internationalised and easier to understand." (David Meyer )

 "MOCA's Jeffrey Deitch rejects the idea that he has courted celebrity sizzle and populist appeal at the expense of serious scholarship." (Reed Johnson)

 "If, in Middle Aged Plague, I paid more attention to key words and the repetitive use of them throughout, I would no doubt score higher on the search engines and draw in more traffic, but I would also be compromising on the writing style, sacrificing the message - and the peculiar way it is written - to SEO technique. " (Carolyn Henderson )

 "There are a lot of valid reasons why an artist should think about reproducing their work. There are also a lot of reasons NOT to." (Sylvia White)

 "Hughes reached the apex of his critical influence in the 1980s and by the 2000s he was becoming known as a curmudgeonly critic who increasingly disparaged much of the contemporary art being produced and celebrated in art fairs and on the international circuit." (Hrag Vartanian)