I have every reason to believe that you have mixed reasons why you think you want to go into the art business. To the extent that you are able to clarify your true intentions and then focus your energy accordingly is a predictor of your success.
There seems to be two main ways to come to a focused direction in an art career. Dogged pure opinion translated as stubbornness. The other is careful research with a peppering of madness coating a rock of pure confidence. In other words unbridled self doubt is the demise of any endeavor.
What is your self-doubt meter? If you have always made pleasing others and catering to their opinions the center piece of your life, you will never learn to hear your own voice within. Can you withstand standing alone? Pondering thoughts in yourself. Are you "alright with that or are your restless beyond comfort?
Now to contradict myself, I ask can you listen to those around your with detached empathy?
Can you listen to criticism with humor and sobriety? Are you calm in the light of differences of opinion? Can you smile and consider making changes and carry on un-derailed on your basic project?
My son is a sprinter. He tells me to get the greatest speed one has to be totally focused, yet completely relaxed. Tension in the muscles takes power away from the runner. Totally focused on speed while completely relaxed seems apparently contradictory. So is listening to criticisms of other and at the some time listening un-distracted to your own voice. How? Attempt to run relaxed and attempt to listen to others and to yourself un-distracted and learn how it is really done. It is only in the trying that you learn the magic of how it is done.
Working in art is carving you own path. Are you up to it?
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