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No Rules

What I love about art (the arts) more than anything is the fact that it holds no particular rules or boundaries. I even wrote a poem about this a while back, entitled, "No Rules." If you try to change the rules in math and decide that 2 + 2 = 7, sure, in your new world of math, that may be correct, but the teacher won't mark it down that way. If you decide that your boss's layout for a project isn't quality enough, so you decide to change things here and there, you might as well go looking for a new job. If you want to see a movie, but don't want to pay for it, unless you have connections, then good luck. If you decide to go 100 in a 55, expect to get pulled over for doing 45 over the speed limit. Everywhere else in life, there are non-stop rules, boundaries and guidelines enforced on us. At work, school, at theaters, concerts, bars, in relationships, with the family, parenting, driving, but not in art. While there is a certain formula used in all ot...