One may receive the information but miss the teaching.
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.
In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.