TV show discussion of the week: Mr. Bean

You don't speak for me. What makes you think I'm a "failed artist"? That would imply it was my dream from the start to become a professional artist, which is completely untrue; art was not my real passion in life. Mother nature was my first and only love in life. My biggest dream was to help save the environment, one step at a time. And here I am, living it. Art was just something that I developed a strong interest in during my teenage years after some of my peers at school believed I had a knack for it. As I was desperate for practical skills at the time, I began practicing it as a hobby and even went to college for it, but despite positive feedback from those around me I lost all interest in art after only a few years; through my experience talking & studying with professional artists and hobbyist artists I developed a profound hatred of the art world, which would later make my list of my most hated industries, as you well know, pig. I never found much happiness making art.

Calling someone a "failed artist" just because they never had a paying job as an artist is just absurd. The reality is that I studied art. I learned art. I produced art. I BREATHED art. I legitimately became an artist who worked within real life high-profile artistic communities. Sure, I ended up hating the experience, but I still succeeded in becoming an art student and a hobbyist artist, so I still succeeded in my goal, which disproves your claim.

Saying someone is a "failed artist" just because they never held a paying job as an artist would be like denouncing all of the countless high-profile uber-talented hobbyist artists on Deviantart as "fakes" or "failures" just because it doesn't bring them any cash.

Oh, and FYI: if you weren't so clueless about art, you would know that it's one of the most oversaturated industries in existence and paying art jobs are extremely difficult to come by. Thus, most artists, even top-professional artists like Richard Williams, Ron Cobb, and Pablo Picasso literally starve for extended parts of their careers as artists. Being a professional traditional artist is one of the most unrealistic careers imaginable. Mark Bussler is a talented semi-professional artist and he wasn't able to make much money (if any) off of his artworks like Ethel the Cyborg Ninja. There's just so much competition for so little paying work.

So it doesn't bother me that I never found success in art because the reality is that I don't even care about it and it's one of the most competitive fields of work in existence. I hate talking about art because it feels like homework for me and brings me closer to people that I hate. Even though I know a lot about it, it doesn't come naturally for me and it's my single least favorite hobby that I have ever done. But I'm always more than happy to quash any misinformation that's being spread about it by artistically impaired pigs like you.