"The fact that no one understands you doesn't…

“The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist” is a jocular one-line saying that has been printed on many images. “Seen on a button…Just because nobody understands you, Doesn’t mean that you’re an Artist” was cited in print in 1994. It’s not known who authored the saying.

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R. Fliegler
7/12/94
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Seen on a button…
Just because nobody understands you, |
Doesn’t mean that you’re an Artist.

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amacker
6/29/95
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Just because no one understands you
Doesn’t mean you’re an artist.

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Smart Comments

Try using these some time…....

1. Ahhh…I see the fuck-up fairy has visited us again…
2. The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.

Google News Archive
9 February 2000, New Straits Times (Malaysia), “Look What I FOund on the Net,” pg. 8, col. 3:
The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.

Google Books
Pastor Tim’s Cleanlaugh Collection
Featuring the Internet’s Funniest Clean Humor
By Tim Davis
Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing
2001
Pg. 150:
The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.

Google Books
A Prairie Home Companion Pretty Good Joke Book
By Brian Becker
Minneapolis, MN: HighBridge
2003
Pg. 199:
The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.

Google Books
The Snark Bible:
A Reference Guide to Verbal Sparring, Comebacks, Irony, Insults and So Much More
Edited by Lawrence Dorfman
New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing
2014
Pg. ?:
The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.