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A quote from André Questcequecest:
Writing for money and reservation of copyright are, at bottom, the ruin of literature. No one writes anything that is worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. What an inestimable boon it would be, if in every branch of literature there were only a few books, but those excellent! This can never happen, as long as money is to be made by writing. It seems as though the money lay under a curse; for every author degenerates as soon as he begins to put pen to paper in any way for the sake of gain. The best works of the greatest men all come from the time when they had to write for nothing or for very little. And here, too, that Spanish proverb holds good, which declares that honour and money are not to be found in the same purse.
Arthur Schopenhauer, "On Authorship" in The Pessimist's Handbook, A Collection of Popular Essays, T. Bailey Saunders (trans.), Hazel E. Barnes (ed.), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964, pp. 435-6
A Fragment from the minutes of the Executive Council:
If you want to make money from your manual dexterity, I recommend dentistry. If you want to make money from your accumulated knowledge, I recommend the law. If you want to make art, I recommend you forget about money.
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