David Hieatt, founder of Hiut Denim Co.<\/a>:<\/p>\n \n II) You are not an artist.<\/strong> You make things. You make things in order to sell them. The difference between you and an artist is you can\u2019t wait years to be discovered. […] Makers are here to make. Makers are here to sell – Van Gogh had to wait till he died before he sold his first painting. You can\u2019t. Sales after you die don\u2019t count.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Gotta love his candidness.<\/p>\n Later on in his interview, Hieatt talks about the importance of quality but also that quality alone is not enough for a successful business around what you make. I agree. As I was writing and recording my audio book<\/a>, or as I work on my sites day in and day out and record my podcast<\/a> every day, my focus is on doing things the best that I can. And to me, that is art; that’s craft.<\/p>\n Slopping something together is not art, and if I allowed myself to do sloppy work then I wouldn’t consider myself an artist.<\/p>\n But the quality alone isn’t what brings me new readers to my site, new members, nor new buyers of my book. Quality is for the sake of my current<\/em> audience.<\/a> I do what I can to spread the word about my work to attract new readers, and I do my best work day in and day out so that current readers stick around because the quality is there.<\/p>\n