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"Highly trained people tend to have a view of the universe that is intellectualized like abstract art, but it is another's work of art which they have idealized and prefer not to fracture. They have worked hard to master their area of specialization, perhaps even suffered privation during the years of education, and they refused to abandon these hard-won conventions. Sometimes to attack their convention is to attack the people themselves. The result is that they do not operate as individuals but as images of themselves, and this image itself is a convention. This fear of communicating as persons and insistence upon communicating as professionals rules them out from the kind of breakthroughs which derive from a deeply subjective response to a problem....He rigorously denies any part of himself except the rational and analytical." (Gordon, William J. J. Synectics, the Development of Creative Capacity. 1961, p. 95)

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When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.--Sol Lewitt 

Laurie Anderson touched on that: