RULES FOR ARTISTS

What are the premises of working artistically?

A.  You need to want to do it

B.  You need to have something to say

C.  If you don't have anything to say you need to explore something?

D.  You want to be famous?

E.  You don't care what anyone thinks of your work

F.  You really care about what people think of your work.

G.  You need to be interesting

H. You need to be charismatic

I.  You need to be able to relate your work to the other expressions of your time

J.  You need to have conections

K.  You need some money

L.  If you're idealistic, go work for some organisation

M.  You need to manipulate people into liking your products.

N.  You have to play your cards right.

O.  You need to set yourself above everyone else.

P.  You need to be right in every assumption

Q.  You need to use your network.  Even the internet.  but mostly the old-fashioned face to face net.  even in internet.

R.   You need to be able to define whats "in" and whats "out" (of course regarding everything but your present work - which of course always is "in"

S.  You might need to stab someone in their soul or in theire friendship.

T.  If you care about diplomacy you're a lost cause.

The framework is closing in on me.