What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.
The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.