What traits do successful artists have in common?
Nov 29, 2019
4 minutes
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Can artists succeed on talent alone? Perhaps. But in the real world, certain personality traits make the art journey a great deal easier.
One, believes artist and teacher Bobby Chiu, is having clear goals. “When I started out, I had small aspirations,” he recalls. “I just wanted to work in an art department. It didn’t matter what I did: sweep people’s floors, sharpen pencils, or whatever. But that mindset led me nowhere.”
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“It’s like going to the gym to sculpt a ripped body, but only doing the treadmill. Just ‘doing art’ isn’t enough”
His career only took off, Bobby says, when he started setting bigger goals, and urges
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