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You know, if you're not good at art, you don't have to be an artist. Not everyone needs to paint the mona lisa. You can just do something you're good at instead.
If you are not good at painting portraits or landscapes you cannot use a camera, that's cheating. You need to leave that task to oil painters. Because pushing a button and getting an image is not art.
Only oil painters are real artists. If you are not an oil painter don't even dare to try to express yourself.
Using a camera doesn't make you an artist either. Photography as art takes a lot of effort, just snapping a shot isn't it. You aren't very good at this.
Says you. I just don't agree with your gatekeeping, and closed mind.
I just think that a lot of people how made their identify in "I'm an artist" are having a laughable crisis of identity in a world where producing art takes less effort each day
I'm not an artist, ~~I'm just better than you on a philosophical level~~ i just respect artists.