Disclaimer: I'm not accusing any of the guys here of being worthless beatniks. I've seen some forumite art and it's actually GOOD.
"I've lost my touch. Can you be my new muse?"
"I have to draw you!"
"I'm in such PAIN! I'm so ANGRY all the time! Only you can relieve this turmoil!"
Why in the world do women fall for these guys? The typical starving artist is an uneducated, scrawny, burned out stoner. Everything about them is angst and self-loathing. Add a laundry list of authority issues to that and you've got the recipe for a total loser.
I won't profess to being an artist, but I know art. And nothing they produce is worthy of being called art. Of course I realize tastes vary, but there's an enormous gulf between real art and stuff that can only be described as "Vomit on Canvas." Their poetry isn't much better and usually consists of endless verses about pain, hate, and anger. It makes me depressed just to read it, and I don't mean that in a good way. It doesn't rhyme, it doesn't even have structure. It's basically just "I'm hurting inside! Feel sorry for me."
No, I'm not a philistine. I enjoy art, theater, and poetry. Affinity for such things is the mark of an educated, cultured mind. But the stuff these morons vomit out make Baby Jesus cry. While I understand that some people might prefer Longfellow to Coleridge, or Monet to Han Chinese art, all those things have one thing in common: they're actually art. They're not something you can normally see on a 14-year-old emo's Livejournal.
Seriously, why are women attracted to them? Those "artists" spend so much time in their basement studios that they look like Gollum.
And they look like they shared a lot of needles, so any girl who sleeps with them is completely off the market afterward.
"I've lost my touch. Can you be my new muse?"
"I have to draw you!"
"I'm in such PAIN! I'm so ANGRY all the time! Only you can relieve this turmoil!"
Why in the world do women fall for these guys? The typical starving artist is an uneducated, scrawny, burned out stoner. Everything about them is angst and self-loathing. Add a laundry list of authority issues to that and you've got the recipe for a total loser.
I won't profess to being an artist, but I know art. And nothing they produce is worthy of being called art. Of course I realize tastes vary, but there's an enormous gulf between real art and stuff that can only be described as "Vomit on Canvas." Their poetry isn't much better and usually consists of endless verses about pain, hate, and anger. It makes me depressed just to read it, and I don't mean that in a good way. It doesn't rhyme, it doesn't even have structure. It's basically just "I'm hurting inside! Feel sorry for me."
No, I'm not a philistine. I enjoy art, theater, and poetry. Affinity for such things is the mark of an educated, cultured mind. But the stuff these morons vomit out make Baby Jesus cry. While I understand that some people might prefer Longfellow to Coleridge, or Monet to Han Chinese art, all those things have one thing in common: they're actually art. They're not something you can normally see on a 14-year-old emo's Livejournal.
Seriously, why are women attracted to them? Those "artists" spend so much time in their basement studios that they look like Gollum.
And they look like they shared a lot of needles, so any girl who sleeps with them is completely off the market afterward.
