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* Larry Butz from the Franchise/AceAttorney series is definitely this. He's talented in all things art, including painting, sculpture, and acting. His endeavors are so well done that they impress whoever sees them, before they find out about who he is. Unfortunately, he's also a complete dumbass CasanovaWannabe who hits on any pretty girl he sees. This has earned him the ire of those that he considers his 'friends'. Who now consider him a nuisance ''at best''! Because he's such a moron but also incredibly unlucky trouble seems to folliw him wherever he goes, earning him the phrase catch "If something smells, it's usually the Butz."

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* Larry Butz from the Franchise/AceAttorney series is definitely this. He's talented in all things art, including painting, sculpture, and acting. His endeavors are so well done that they impress whoever sees them, before they find out about who he is. Unfortunately, he's also a complete dumbass CasanovaWannabe who hits on any pretty girl he sees. This has earned him the ire of those that he considers his 'friends'. Who now consider him a nuisance ''at best''! Because he's such a moron but also incredibly unlucky trouble seems to folliw follow him wherever he goes, earning him the phrase catch "If something smells, it's usually the Butz."
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* Larry Butz from the Franchise/AceAttorney series is definitely this. He's talented in all things art, including painting, sculpture, and acting. His endeavors are so well done that they impress whoever sees them, before they find out about who he is. Unfortunately, he's also a complete dumbass CasanovaWannabe who hits on any pretty girl he sees. This has earned him the ire of those that he considers his 'friends'. Who now consider him a nuisance ''at best''! Because he's such a moron but also incredibly unlucky trouble seems to folliw him wherever he goes, earning him the phrase catch "If something smells, it's usually the Butz."
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* ''Literature/ThePsychologyOfTimeTravel'': Grace is a conceptual artist with and expresses herself through unusual fashion choices and quirky time travel-based art installations. Her behavior often defies expectation as well. She leaves cryptic messages folded in origami rabbits, shoplifts from her own art exhibition, and arranges to meet Ruby in another city knowing she will [[spoiler: collapse in a terminal coma]] before she can say a word.
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** Musicians in Muppet productions are frequently portrayed as eccentric: The Electric Mayhem are so detached from reality that later productions just outright started implying they're on drugs; in the [[Music/{{Blondie}} Debbie Harry]] episode of ''The Muppet Show'', when she meets the Muppet punk group she says "You aren't my normal band. But then, whoever heard of a normal band?"; and in ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'' when Kermit questions how Solid Foam are actually musicians (since their music is synthesised and autotuned) he gets the reply "Who else would dress like this?"

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** Musicians in Muppet productions are frequently portrayed as eccentric: The Electric Mayhem are so detached from reality that later productions just outright started implying they're on drugs; in the [[Music/{{Blondie}} [[Music/BlondieBand Debbie Harry]] episode of ''The Muppet Show'', when she meets the Muppet punk group she says "You aren't my normal band. But then, whoever heard of a normal band?"; and in ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'' when Kermit questions how Solid Foam are actually musicians (since their music is synthesised and autotuned) he gets the reply "Who else would dress like this?"
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* In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPicasso'', most characters are artists (painters, poets, singers, and ballet dancers), and pretty much everyone is a CloudcuckooLander.

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* In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPicasso'', most characters are artists (painters, ({{painters}}, poets, singers, and ballet dancers), and pretty much everyone is a CloudcuckooLander.



** Methodia Rascal in ''Literature/{{Thud}}'' is famed for his incredibly in-depth and accurate painting of a famous battle from centuries ago. And also for thinking he was a chicken.

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** Methodia Rascal in ''Literature/{{Thud}}'' is famed for his incredibly in-depth and accurate painting {{painting|s}} of a famous battle from centuries ago. And also for thinking he was a chicken.
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True Art Is Incomprehensible is now an in-universe trope as per TRS.
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By the same token, self-styled artists with more ego than talent are very likely to invoke this trope, using their "creative genius" as an excuse for ignoring their community's standards of acceptable behavior. Unlike the BunnyEarsLawyer, however, artistic ability is no guarantee that other people will tolerate the artist's behavior if it grows too obnoxious or outlandish, or that [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible anyone else will understand the work of a true creative genius]] - at least [[DeadArtistsAreBetter not within their lifetime]].

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By the same token, self-styled artists with more ego than talent are very likely to invoke this trope, using their "creative genius" as an excuse for ignoring their community's standards of acceptable behavior. Unlike the BunnyEarsLawyer, however, artistic ability is no guarantee that other people will tolerate the artist's behavior if it grows too obnoxious or outlandish, or that [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible anyone else will understand the work of a true creative genius]] genius - at least [[DeadArtistsAreBetter not within their lifetime]].

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