10 career hacks from famous artists

From hoarding your privacy, to embracing your inner-child and ensuring you make durable art, some of our greatest contemporary artists share their wisdom.
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All images supplied by National Gallery of Victoria as featured in Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei exhibition 2016.

Andy Warhol was famed for delivering pithy philosophies on business, commerce, money, art and life to derive lessons for the modern day artist. Here are a couple of our favourite gems of Warholian advice:

‘You know it’s ART, when the cheque clears.’

‘Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippie era people put down the idea of business.They’d say “money is bad” and “working is bad”. But making money is art, and working is art – and good business is the best art.’

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina