Came across a few artists on a social site who think that the only real artists are those who have been formerly trained. It’s a very narrow and strange way of seeing art.

All Colleges, Universities, Institutions etc. are products of the system. They are corporate in their thinking and traditional in their training. They are extensions of the government and hence present careful, institutionalised attitudes. They are mechanical production lines that produce trained monkeys.

Some of these monkeys are able to break out of their training and become great artists, but most cling to the few rules they learned as they try to make it in the practical world of art.

Art is an expression of the character, the personality. How can anyone tell you what you are and how you should express it? How can people who are not successful artists teach you how to be a successful artist?

The system sucks and if you want to follow its foolish ways, then you will probably suck too!

Quietly being me