The Zen of Why It’s Okay Just to Be Okay... for Artists and Everyone

Barney Davey
4 min readMar 12, 2024
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I’m learning to accept myself. I’m still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it’s been refreshing and nice to be able to do that and to be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me.

— Dua Lipa

For thirty years, I’ve been in the trenches with artists—not wielding a brush myself but wielding a different…

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Barney Davey

I paint with words. I spin ideas and dreams. I help artists market art and live better.