• RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    “My desire to pretend I’m a cultured intellectual for profit is more important than the privacy and explicit wishes of a dead person who trusted me.”

    You have no right to anyone else’s private thoughts and creations.

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      Art exists separate from the artist. If Goya wanted to destroy it, he could have anytime while he was alive. Obviously he liked it a lot.

      What, do you think his ghost is embarrassed that the world loves his secret paintings? This is some fake moralist privacy shit.

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        What, do you think his ghost is embarrassed that the world loves his secret paintings?

        No, I’m just not an asshole who thinks I’m entitled to other people’s personal things.

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          I guess you’ve never heard that “good artists borrow and great artists steal”? I think some no talent bum, who never made great art, said that.

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            I keep saying this in court when dealing with copyright claims but it seems like it only works for rich people to steal others ideas and profit off them