That which is driven by ideas exists by virtue of principles, and by its own merits.
Independent thinkers, that is to say, people of individual imagination and autonomous will, are so constituted as to resist being subsumed into the easy comfort of cultural conformity; it is tedious and predictable to one of such a disposition.
This is the artist for whom commercial success is an indifferent thing, for whom the myriad objects of status are of no consequence. What matters is intensity of being and fullness of expression, depth of thought, strength of vision and the quest for possibilities and their realization.
Independent thinkers, that is to say, people of individual imagination and autonomous will, are so constituted as to resist being subsumed into the easy comfort of cultural conformity; it is tedious and predictable to one of such a disposition.
This is the artist for whom commercial success is an indifferent thing, for whom the myriad objects of status are of no consequence. What matters is intensity of being and fullness of expression, depth of thought, strength of vision and the quest for possibilities and their realization.
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