Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them. .Robert James Waller
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The market kills more artistic people than anything else. In the book, The Virtues of Amateurism, Stephen Knight explains how the market prevents people from pursuing their passions. In other words, the market is a place where things are created for mass consumption and not for true artistic expression. Knight claims that "the market kills more artistic people than anything else," but he also admits that the market also makes a lot of money for a lot of people.
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