L'art pour l'art, my friends.

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"
e.e.cummings

The voice of intelligence ... is drowned out by the roar of fear.
It is ignored by the voice of desire.
It is contradicted by the voice of shame.
It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger.
Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
--Dr. Karl Menninger

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from
mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a
person does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices
but honestly and courageously uses their intelligence.
--Albert Einstein