How to Build a Reputation as a Self-Taught Artist

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Christina Varga from the Varga Gallery in Woodstock, New York and on behalf of Expert Village today I’m going to show you how to become a self-taught artist, not an easy thing. So, so you’re having a hard time getting people to listen to you, to pay attention, do what you’re doing. You must persist in this and you must persist in the face of derision, because I’ll tell you this, it will be a good two to three years before people take you seriously and you have to remain there. You can’t bounce around and be real flaky and flit everywhere, you’ve got to just stay in your place and continue to build your empire until you have the support of your community which takes a long, long time and there is a lot of nay saying and stuff you’ll have to go through and you’ll have to just ignore all this. Remain positive and remain loving and it will all work out in the end as long as you do want you are meant to be doing and that’s all you have to do, what you are put on earth to do. "