You can't save an artist who doesn't want to be saved – so mind your own business

You can't save an artist who doesn't want to be saved.

Somebody who isn't trying to get rich selling their artwork. 

You can't help an artist who already knows her style and has learned in this social media age to always be herself because art is subjective and there will always be critics, but what sets one apart is what's unique to you. You can't save a real artist who creates for the relaxation feeling it gives her inside. In fact, by trying to, it shows someone who is not a genuine artist at all. 

So the "artist" who really needs saving here is the one who became a sell out instead of finding a path that fit his own style. The one trying to convince another artist to do the same "if they want to make money," wrongly assuming that's the only driving reason someone makes art. The one who actually needs advice is the critic implying an artist's work will never sell, when he is in fact only inferring that from his own beginning artwork, as though he is the expert on all art tastes of every art buyer in the world. The artist who needs to be saved is the one who was told his work was horrible once – and has forever believed it! The person who can't remember the artist they once were and wanted to be. And think that's okay.

That person needs someone to tell him to leave other artists alone. That he is not the expert. He needs to know that he will never understand how a true artist feels since he doesn't consider himself "really an artist,"and thus, is always going to give the worst advice to any authentic artist. He needs to learn to bud out.

Because what that person unknowingly needs is just for someone to reassure him that he made the right decision by changing who he was and how he creates. Thus, he needs to recognize that trying to lead someone down his path only indicates that he is looking for another artist to hit it big in that way, in order for him to feel it was his wise advice that helped. This person needs to acknowledge he is merely trying to convince himself he got it right all those years ago and that he made it as far as he could, farther than he would have with his original artwork style. Most importantly, he needs to understand assaulting already-established artists is not the way to accomplish this.

So what that person truly needs now is a hug that nobody ever understood the meaning of his art on their own. He needs a big hug since he never got to experience that feeling which every true artist should get to feel at least once. And another hug because no one ever tracked him down and offered him money for a piece of art created in his own style.

Because who that person isn't is a renowned, successful artist with all the answers just trying to take a young artist (whom he has mistaken to be an unsold amateur less knowledgeable than himself) under his wing. Because who that person really is is someone hoping to transfer his misery and doubt unto another artist in order to lift himself up from the bottom (which is where he truly believes he is, although he pretends to be high enough on the ladder of success and experience that comes with old age to be a reliable critique). 

And, that makes this person the saddest "artist" of all.

Who this person really is, is an artist who needs saving, but who doesn't want to be saved.