From Drawn.com:
“That is, you see a picture of Jackson Pollock smoking a cigarette and looking intense and you think “smoking and being super intense are part of what made Jackson Pollock the artist he was.” And then, worst of all, “if I were to start smoking and being all intense then I would increase my ability to create great art.” And worse again if we begin with “Jackson Pollock was an alcoholic and frequently an awful person to be around,” so…
– Pippin Barr, The Meta-Aesthetics of Artists: How Emulating the Habits of Successful Artists is Not the Key to Making Art
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