A question for all Nostr artists:
Would you rather be successful without deserving it, or deserve success without ever achieving it?
In other words:
Would you rather make a fortune, knowing your art is empty and sells only because it’s been hyped up?
Or:
Would you rather be appreciated wherever you go, but have no one buy your work—even though your art has real value?
But then I started wondering:
Who gets to decide that an artwork is “empty”?
The artist? The audience? The market? Critics?
And if a seemingly mediocre work manages to move millions of people and generate real economic value, is it really “empty” after all?
#art #music #poetry #literature
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