fame is the weapon society uses to turn the artist into a citizen the artist who was wild who created with reckless abandon with purity with no desire for recognition or appaluse learns to rehearse and measure his performance by the degree of applause he receives tuning out his originality to chase more fame he becomes part of society speaking like everyone thinking like everyone acting and reacting like everyone he becomes a robot with pre-programmed responses an abiding citizen of society the true artist must quarantine from the world forever to protect the purity of his artistry for art cannot be democratised it is untamed wild and free