It all starts at school, if you're driven by passion. A good school doesn't teach the artist what to do, but what not to do. The authentic artists create out of "inner necessity" (Kandinsky).  The rest — career, fame — depend on intermediaries who collects all the benefits and leave only crumbs for the artists. The art world is a private club and  a big money game and it's important who belongs to this club and who doesn't. What matters is which famous people you are dinning with, more than knowing how to draw or to paint. The most uncompromising work and the strongest ideas are the first to be ignored.  It's less about the art than the special ballet around it.  Art reputation depends to the same galleries, the same curators, the same collectors. It's hard to  get in,  but it can be bypassed and ignored in order to give art a new deserved direction.

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