Someone writing in The Telegraph about Cezanne said that he would not have been known in Britain if it had not been for Samuel Courtauld who recognised his talent and bought a lot of his paintings.
It made me wonder how many artists and writers have not been successful because they have never been "talent spotted" by somone with money to back them.
It's often said that "So-and-So" of the "Something Publishers" discovered some writer who went on to be great, as if that without "So-and-So" he would never have succeeded.
Unfortunately I think there's a lot of truth in this.
You can send stuff to publishers and nothing happens. You can paint and try to sell and nothing happens. You have to get known somehow.
I wish I knew how.
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