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?

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