The art world is a fickle scene. How man times have you gone to an opening and stood around drinking free beer with your friends while pontificating that you could have done that, only better?

Or experienced the consternation of your parents that art will never get you anywhere, you should go to law school?

If that sounds familiar, here's a list of artists who made the riches and got the bitches without really trying.

LEONARDO DA VINCI
Da Vinci is worth the hype. I'm just sick of hearing everyone rave about the Mona Lisa.  "Oh, but you can't see any brushstrokes". It's called technique, people. It's what makes good artists great. "Well he must have been great, because she seems to be smiling at me." No, that's called paranoia. You should see someone about that.
JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
Note to critics: stop trying to justify the demented scribbles of a junkie by using the word juxtaposition.

BANKSY
Thanks to Banksy, no other stencil artist will ever be able to do anything from here on out without someone going "but it reminds me of Banksy".

MICHELANGELO
He's also the most over-rated of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
PIET MONDRIAN
It's not a representation of music. It's just black lines and blocks of colour.
JACKSON POLLOCK
Okay, we get it. You only had four good ideas. And you were always too drunk to pull them off.
ANDY WARHOL
Did you actually paint anything in the last ten years of your life?

SALVADOR DALI
"Hello, I'm Salvador. I decided long ago that there is no such thing as a bad idea and that they should all reference some part of my personality. My ego got so big, that I decided to stop selling my work and instead created a temple where you could come and worship me. Yes, I am a narcissist.

TERRY RICHARDSON
Just because you can point a camera and press the shutter button doesn't mean I want to see every aspect of your perverted life in colour.
DAMIEN HIRST
When did spending ridiculous amounts of money on creating conceptual monstrosities become art? "But it's a shark in Formaldehyde." So what? "But that's a real human skull covered in diamonds."  I don't care. Go away.