It was like a mask had been pulled away from his face, uncovering a monster hidden beneath his friendly façade.
A successful actor is praised for never giving up his dreams to become someone else for a living but to dream to be an unmasked artist is a mortal sin in a consumerist society. Artists don't consume; they create things that can__ be consumed with riches. You consume art by seeing, by listening, by feeling, never by buying.
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A successful actor is praised for never giving up his dreams to become someone else for a living but to dream to be an unmasked artist is a mortal sin in a consumerist society. Artists don't consume; they create things that can__ be consumed with riches. You consume art by seeing, by listening, by feeling, never by buying.
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