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Honestly you should just embrace it. Better to be pretentious than most artists that just pretend to be caring and compassionate to masquerade their narcissistic control freak tendencies.

- Eclecticism. Engage with art you consider very different from your own and let it break up pretenses you might have unconciously allowed to form.
- Look into things that you want to say something about thouroughly. You'll find yourself also being an essayist as a result. I recommend using nekoweb or some other static site host to publish them.
- Avoid microphone drop mentality. Your art doesn't need to be a TRVTH NVKE to have something valuable to say about something.
- It's also just fine to risk pretentiousness, just snap yourself out of it if it happens and take notes regarding the experience.
- Do what you think is cool and/or interesting, worry about making it legible to others after.

>>710625
True, I'd rather be authentic to myself.

>>710629
Good points really.

the only time artists and designers get truly pretentious is when trying to explain their works and they go on long winded faux deep meaningless ramblings. check the designer's description of some $5,000 furniture to know what i mean

>>710629
I came here to post a reply, but can't think of anything better than these points. Well done.

If you think you're doing something valuable you shouldn't be afraid to defend it earnestly.