Con Artist
A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence. A confidence artist is an individual operating alone or in concert with others who exploits characteristics of the human psyche such as dishonesty, honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, naïveté, or greed.
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“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.”
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