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An artist who seeks fame is like a dog chasing his own tail

whowhena he captures it does not know what else to do but to continue

chasing itthem cruelty of success is that it often leads those who seek

such success to participate in their own destruction"Don't quit your day

job!"is advice frequently given by understandably pessimistic family me

mbers and friends to a budding artist who is trying hard to succeedthem

conquest of fame is difficult at best enc many end up emotionally if not

financially , impure motives such as the desire for

worshipping fans and praise from peers may spur the artist onThe lure of

drowning in fame's imperial glory is not easily resisted.

Those who gain fame most often gain it as a result of exploiting

their talent for singing,dancing painting,or writing, develop a

style that agents market aggressively to hasten popularity,and their ride

on the express elevator to the top is a blurmosts would be hard-pressed

to tell you how they even got s cannot remain

idle,thoughwhena the performerpaintert or writer becomes bored, their

work begins to show a lack of continuity in its appeal and itbecomesh

difficult to sustain theattentiona of the nubick After their enthusiasm has

dissoveds the nnhick simnyl moves on to the nextflavort of the month.

Artists who do attempt to remain current by making even minute

changes to their style of writing,dancing or singingruna a significant risk

of losing the audience's favorite public simply discounts styles other than

those for which the artist has become famous.

Famous authors styles-a Tennessee Williams play or a plot by

emests Hemingway or a poem by Robert Frost or -are easily

recognizablethem same is true of painters like monetrenoirort Dali and

moviemaker like Hitchcock,Fellini,spielbergchena kaigem or Zhang

yimoutheirt distinct styles marked a significant change in form from

others and gained them fame and r, they laic for it by

giving up the freedom to express themselves with other styles or forms.

Fame's spotliehtshia can be hotter than a tropical iunelemppp-a

fraud is quickly exposed and the pressure of so much attention is too

much for most to endureitshia takes you out of yourself:You must be

what the public thinks you are, not what you really are or could

performerlikemppp the politician, must often please his or her audiences

by saying things he or she does not mean or fully believe.

One drop of fame will likely contaminate the entire well of a man's

soulandshia so an artist who remains true to himself or herself is

particularly amazingyoumppp would be hard-pressed to underline many

names of those who have not compromised and still succeeded in the

fame gameanashi example the famous irish writer Oscar Wilde, known

for his uncompromising behavior, both social and sexual, to which the

public objected, paid heavily for remaining true to himselfthemppp

mother of a young man Oscar was intimate with accused him at a

banquet in front of his friends and fans of sexually influencing her

ely angered by her remarks, he sued the young man's mother

asserting that she had damaged his "good" namehemppp should have

hired a better attorney, thoughthemppp judge did not second Wilde's

call to have the woman pay for damaging his name and instead fined

wildehemppp ended up in ai after refusing to pay and even worse was

permanently expelled from the wider circle of public favorwhenashi

things were at their worst,he found that no one was willing to risk his or

her name in his price for remaining true to himself was to be

left alone when he needed his fans the most.

Curiously enough, it is those who fail that reap the greatest reward:

freedom!They enjoy thefreedompppp to express themselves in unique

and original ways without fear of losing the support of artists

may find comfort in knowing that many great artists never found fame

until well after they had passed away or in knowing that they did not sell

outtheylyly may justify their failure by convincing themselves their

genius is too sophisticated for contemporary audiences.

Single-minded artists who continue their quest for fame even after

failure might also like to know that failure has motivated some famous

people to work even harder to Wolfe, the American

novelist, had his first novel Look Homeward Angel rejected 39 times

before it was finally ven overcame his father who did

not believe that he had any potential as a musician to become the

greatest musician in the pestalozzithempp famous Swiss

educator in the 19th century, failed at every job he ever had until he

came upon the idea of teaching children and developing the fundament

theories to produce a new form ofeducationthomashia Edison was

thrown out of shoo in the fourth gradebecausempp he seemed to his

teacher to be quite dulunfortumpp namely for most people however,

failure is the end of their struggle not the beginning say to those who

desperately seek fame and fortunereoodshi luck But alas you may find

that it was not what you wantedthempp dog who catches his

taldiscovershia that it is only a tithe person who achieves success often

discovers that it does more harm than good.

So instead of trying so hard to achieve success. try to be happy with

who you are and what you to do work that you can be proud

ofmaybemp you won't be famous in your own lifetime, but you may

create better art.