What Is Love, Anyway?

Seth Godin writes a great marketing blog called, appropriately enough, Seth's Blog. Despite its declared subject matter, it is still more than tangentially relevant to my everyday life. The struggle to happily wed art and commerce is addressed in today's post, titled Maybe you can't make money doing what you love. I'm always hungry to commiserate with other artists, and I 'm glad to know I'm not the only one who loses the muse whenever money is involved. I don't know if it's the pressure of being exposed as a fraud that makes me clamp up, or the (pre-)realization that clients frequently want something with which they're already familiar. I've got to stop all this pre-realizing. Subverting, or more to the point, getting past my own expectations is what art+commerce is all about for me. I struggle on...