Time will tell

Like Robert Frost wrote about two diverging roads in a wood.  I too am choosing my path.  Sometimes the path of least resistance, but my path none the less.  Making things up as I go along, is quite a bit harder than it seemed from the outside. And i'm finding to be truly unique in a craft that is thousands of years old is daunting, to be salable seems to be just as daunting. For you can be truly unique and not sell anything, and you can be cookie cutter and make a million.  Where is the balance?  What is the order?