How to become successful artist

1. Avoid learning skills.
2. If already learned, choose different field.
3. Find similarities in popular artists.
4. Find similarities in radical underground artists.
5. Find similarities in financially successful artists.
6. Combine above subsets.
7. Find general similarities.
8. Select similarities, duplication of which does not require skills.
9. Utilize to gain prominence.
10. Choose mind-altering substance to abuse.
11. Use insights, gained from abuse, to tweak the guiding principles.
12. Tweak just enough to cultivate enigma.
13. Choose comfortable margin of deviation from the guiding principles.
14. Every now and then produce random results, taking care to stay within the margin.
15. Constant low amplitude fluctuation will make you appear unpredictable and difficult to categorize.
16. Periodically repeat the entire process, factoring yourself in an appropriate subset (see #7).
17. Enjoy rewarding career that will end early when you loose control of the fluctuations or late when you loose ability to fluctuate.