There's a scene in The French Dispatch where the art dealer looks at Moses and says

There's a scene in The French Dispatch where the art dealer looks at Moses and says, all artists sell all their work. It's what makes you an artist, selling it. That line sat with me because Moses Rosenthaler never set out to be an artist. He was in prison. He started painting to just keep his hands moving, just to survive, just to have a reason to keep going. He wasn't trying to create something extraordinary. Honestly, he was just trying to make it through the day. Then one man walked into that prison, saw the paintings on the wall, and decided the world needed to see them. Before that moment, nobody cared about Moses, and after that moment, everybody wanted a piece of him. But the work didn't change, Moses didn't change. The only thing that changed was someone with power walked in and said, this matters. That's social media, that's the algorithm. The world deciding your art has value, not when you create it, but when the right person notices it. Sometimes the most extraordinary things are created by people who were just trying to survive, who were just trying to keep going, turning their pain into art. Moses knew what he had before any of them did. That's the thing about creating something real, it's holding onto that belief before the world catches up to you.