Everyone involved with artistic mediums, that is. It is impossible to be an artist and not be pretentious. No one approaches their work thinking that it won't be important (or any good for that matter — I'm excluding some Hollywood directors). And sure, you may argue that it doesn't count as being pretentious if your work actually is important, but that leads me to my next point: subjectiveness.
Yes, subjectiveness ensures that all artists are pretentious. Most people would say that Picasso is a genius, but there still might be a few who'd say he's rubbish — "I mean look, the proportions are all wrong," and so on. To them, Picasso is a pretentious prick. Your work is never going to be brilliant for everyone.
The defining factor in all this is how much pretention your work exudes. If it looks or sounds pretentious, then that is what it will be accused of. The real 'masterpieces' are the ones that hide their prententions.
We all have pretentions to be good! And again I'll say that this should have been prepared better.
Duck, Duck, Cockatiel
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The move is officially complete, though I'm still living with a few islands
of stuff—the main one located in what agents like to call the "meals area".
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Sorry, I was just being pretentious. And while I won't correct your lack of quotation marks (which you don't really need anyway), I will say that your "its" urgently needs an apostrophe. Capital letters and full stops wouldn't go astray, either.
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I won't. I will, however, require a tad more room on the explanation side of things.
I assumed that's what it was. But I don't see why it exists. It's like me saying FELlo instead of Hello or something.
I knew this machine gun fellow. Nice chap.
Did he eat? Was he an eater? What happened when the machine gun feller ate yo'?
This post is awful, too.
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