Good and controversial

Caravaggio was good(in terms of technique) and controversial in his time (sometimes I do wonder if he used mirrors and stuff to get those cinematic images/paintings). Georges de La Tour was really good and the Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds is definitely a conversation piece, and I don’t think it’s controversial. Maybe being a conversation piece doesn’t necessarily mean being controversial.

Yet I feel like sometimes in the artwork you need to be controversial to get famous, and to get famous is how you make money in the art world, say Jeff Koons. But I don’t want to be Jeff Koons. I want to be Käthe Kollwitz. There are more important reasons to make art than being famous and(or) rich. Although being a rich artist is very helpful in making art. Jim Henson proved that.