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To make a living from creating art, a dream shared by many.
However, not many artists like the idea of creating with the single goal to make money. Most of you probably agree such a mindset is not the best way to start. We also know about doing it all and only for the love of art, the myth of the starving artist and

There is this ocean, filled with thousands of talented, ambitious and original visual artists, swimming and trying to keep their head above the water; amongst them swims the new Rembrandt, unnoticed.

And there this fishing-boat filled with curators,

A wealthy Dutch art-collector wrote a book* about the greed and the manipulations in the art-world, titled ART FLIPPER. A strange title, but it refers to nickname he was given by his opponents when he stood up against his critics.