可是隨著時間之推移,歌手年復一年地依老調唱老歌,畫師畫同樣的風景人物,演員反復重演同一角色,這樣他們都會感到厭煩。為了維持自己的成功和聲譽,群眾的要求會把藝術家如人質般束縛住。如果這位藝術家企圖改變筆調、舞姿、唱腔的話,聽眾、觀眾就會舍他而去,把那飄忽不定的稱譽轉授別人。隨后再轉授另一人,如此循環往復。
But over time, the singer grows weary of singing the same songs in the same way year after year, or the painter is fed up with painting similar scenes or portraits, or the actor gets tired of playing the same character repeatedly. The demand of the public holds the artist hostage to their own success and fame. If the artist attempts to change their style of writing, dancing or singing, etc.. the audience may turn their backs on them, conferring the fickle fame on the other, and then, in time, on another, and so on.