Joseph A. Fitzgerald

“The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man who is not an artist in some field, every man without a vocation, is an idler. The kind of artist that a man should be, carpenter, painter, lawyer, farmer, or priest, is determined by his own nature, in other words by his nativity. The only man who has a right to abstain from all constructive activities is the monk, who has also surrendered all those uses that depend on things that can be made and is no longer a member of society. No man has a right to any social status, who is not an artist.”
― Joseph A. Fitzgerald, The Wisdom of Ananda Coomaraswamy: Reflections on Indian Art, Life, and Religion