Blog / 2026 / Turning Money into Love through Art

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Money doesn’t equal love. Anyone with even a modestly healthy understanding of the world knows this. But what’s less well understood is that when you give money to artists—through monthly support or by buying their art—that legal tender becomes love, because art itself is love.

It’s true! Making art is an act of love, because artists create stuff with the sole purpose of touching the hearts of other people.

And the alchemy of art—of turning gold, as it were, into something far more precious—goes beyond that too. When you give money to artists, you’re refusing to accept some of the more hateful ideas that squirm around in the core of capitalism. I’m talking about things like thinking that people who have lots of money must automatically be more worthy than others or believing that when a person isn’t being paid much that must mean their job isn’t important.

Art gleefully sabotages all that garbage just by existing. Why would people do this thing that almost never pays well when society tells them that their worth as human beings is equivalent to their bank account’s worth? When you pay artists, you’re helping society as a whole dismantle these harmful ways of thinking.

When you give money to artists, it becomes love.