Re: Contracting with Artists
 
> Very tricky.  It's hard to find a good artist who has any business sense.  
Mo
> of the artists with business ability turn out copy-cat art.  It's as if the
> artistic ability uses opposite brain workings from business ability, and 
he
> two cannot exist peacefully together in the one skull.
>  
> I would ask him how long it's going to take, explaining that you need to 
have
> delivery date for your business and you need to have a cost estimate.  It
> doesn't necessarily mean he'll understand, but it does lay the groundwork 
for
> art, but even the greatest artists had to produce to deadline when they had 
a
> commercial contract.  If Rembrandt, Matisse, Michaelangelo, Vermeer, could 
co
> in on time with masterpieces, then it is possible to do so without 
compromisi
> the quality of the work (even if it's not comfortable).  Another kind of 
grea
> artist, Shakespeare, worked only as a commercial writer, and he managed to 
ge
> it in on time and of the highest quality, every time.
Assume the artist offers 2-3 drawings and I don't like them, should I not pay
him anything for his time? How about revisions? It really goes on and
on...sure isn't like buying a loaf of bread.
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