Excerpt from Ralph Albert Blakelock
It is often the fate of a man to he misunderstood in his own generation, even to he ignored, and if his pursuit in life he Art this is particularly the case, because it is the few who find deep enough inter? est in the matter to devote time and Study to acquiring knowledge. It is far easier to accept the fashion of the hour, and, since our walls demand pictures for their decoration, obviously it is best to secure those which are the fashion. The fate of such a man is not a hard one essentially, although it may mean privation. There is an implied compliment in the negligence, a suggestion that he is not understood, and so, quite unconsciously, the public places him upon a height. This is a comforting sort of reasoning, but does not mean to say that the condition is a right one. A man who is in earnest - deadly earnest - that kind of earnestness which is willing to endure sacrifice, that man knows that he labors for a small audience. His appeal is to the cultivated few, and rarely, I think, does a man live and work well in a complete and solitary silence. Somebody knows, and somebody cares for his work, perhaps understands it, and this is the great reward, - to be understood.
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