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You can't argue with idiots. They believe in crimes of the professional against society and creativity and the artist's role as saviour and underdog.
Here's their manifesto:
1. The true artist, by nature, is always an amateur and never a professional.
2. In a world populated by experts the artist must be a forever moving target.
3. The professional's violence against creativity and his rewards for his cowardice must be exposed and finally ridiculed.
4. The professional is weak because of his need to be respected, honoured and adored. The true artist, on the other hand, must have the courage to remain unimpressive, shallow and obvious.
5. The lie of originality, the ignorance of its champions and the intrinsic honesty of plagiarism.
6 The inherent provincialism of professionals and the intrinsic cosmopolitanism of the amateur.
7. It is the professional's obsession with good taste that obliterates all creativity. It is actually this fear of life itself that forces the professional to become a neurotic expert and crush the intrepid amateur.
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