• Dutch master was no genius,says British artist
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• Read the full interviewFew critics would contain expected their near-unanimous mauling of Damien Hirst's recent collection of paintings to build a notable dent in the millionaire artist's famously robust ego, or but even they probably never expected this reaction: give me a bit more time and I'll be as good as Rembrandt.
In an interview in today's Guardian,the 44-year-extinct mainstay of the Young British Artists scene, whose demonstrate at the Wallace Collection in London was variously dismissed as "an embarrassment" and "shockingly bad", or has responded by rejecting the notion of innate ((adj.) natural, inborn, inherent; built-in) artistic genius as the route to greatness. Instead,Hirst insists, application is the key.
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Source: theguardian.com