Quote - It could be said that seeking external inspiration suggests there's not much inside oneself to do the job.

I'm coming to think the only real art comes from the 6 year olds in my class with crayons and colour pencils who produce works they can explain to me in minute detail, and something that's intimately and significantly meaningful in their lives. I'd like to see some try to explain the meaningless shite they put in the galleries they call art, and others give them 50 favourites for. Only adults need external inspiration (the ideas of others) , and that's a sad state of affairs.

Kids are influenced by other kids.  When I was in elementary school (about age 7 or 8), all the children in my class painted the sky as a single blue stripe at the top of the page.  They mocked me because I came from another country where we painted the sky blue all the way to the horizon. They also painted teeth as perfectly white grids, and houses with the perspective incorrect -- and all painted them incorrectly in precisely the same way.

Social pressure to conform and bullying extends to art, and kids are far from excluded.  This is why the public posts of adults are so unoriginal and repetitive, and why real art (if I may dare use the term) requires a degree of stubborness and rebellion that would no doubt be "treated" with medication today.

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