I visited a painter the other day at his studio where both finished and unfinished canvases leaned up against every wall.

During our time together he told me...

"Many of these paintings have four, five, six and sometimes seven paintings underneath them."

He will paint something to completion, become bored of it and then paint something new over the top of it. Considering just how much work he was throwing away, I told him this made me wince a little bit.

To which he responded...

"I just have zero attachment to my work once it is completed––all I enjoy is the process of doing the work."

What's perhaps even more fascinating, is that he's commercially successful by every stretch of the word.

His work is highly sought after. He has a gallery in Los Angeles that is constantly peddling his paintings. He has pieces that hang in the homes of the rich and the famous.

Every time he paints over one of his paintings, he's practically throwing money away. But, he's not doing it for the money. And this makes me wonder if it's not why he's making money.