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What does it mean?
Financial pressure often reduces creative imagination and freedom.
In plain terms
Money and imagination usually work against each other.
What can you take from it?
Money can limit creative freedom.

Where it applies

  • creative work
  • funding decisions
  • artistic struggle

Putting it to work

  • seeking patronage
  • financial independence
  • artistic choice

Questions to consider

  • Can you create well under financial stress?
  • Does wealth stifle creativity?

Another view

Some artists may need money to support their creative work.

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