Artist Myths

Can you count how many myths about artists are in this video clip? You are an artist if you are:

• smug
• male
• socially inappropriate or anti-social
  
• say and do things to shock and/or hurt others
• abuse alcohol and drugs
• physically abuse self and/or others
  
• promiscuous or into kinky sex
  
• suffer way more than other people do
• a slave to your muse
• make art that sells comercially
  
• make art that isn't really art
  
• disdainful of non-artists wannabe's
• arrogant
• unwashed, unkempt
  
• pee in Peggy Guggenheim's fireplace
• con the public with crap
  
• can't spell or write clearly
• disenfranchised
  

This video is the perfect example of why I hate calling myself an artist although I clearly am one. Have I left any other myths out? Oh, yeah...artists shouldn't have kids.