Self-censorship caused by social expectations and peer pressure is the death of imagination and creativity
Posit: it's not that artists are more likely to break norms, it's that people with a tendency for norm-breaking are more likely to do art
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A relatively simple remedy, of course, is to create in secret, for oneself, with no expectation of ever showing the results to anyone
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I feel like artistic culture reinforces 'norm-breaking' as a desirable trait; there are social pressures *to be* norm-breaking.
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People are drawn to art regardless of norms and are then get accustom to experience and explore boundaries as part of the craft
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Yes! Color outside of the lines! Be a radical! Be one who speaks, not one who is only spoken to. Question... Dogma especially.
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