a pretentious topic

[gangstershit]

I've noticed art and pretentiousness goes hand and hand. It's like peanutbutter and jelly. This isn't just limited to hipsters either. We are all a little guilty. I think it's an issue that needs to be recognized. It narrows your horizons and limits your creativity. It's for our own good to recognize it in ourselves.

I'll admit I was too pretentious to visit deviant art because of the god awful "most popular" page until a couple months ago. I'm still pretty uptight about anything that looks like anything I've seen before. When really this industry revolves around slight variations of the same thing.

Any opinions?