Decadentia

“If you try once or twice to communicate and get pushed back, pretty soon you decide, “To hell with it.”
― Richard P. Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character

“What I got out of that story was something still very new to me: I understood at last what art is really for, at least in certain respects. It gives somebody, individually, pleasure. You can make something that somebody likes so much that they’re depressed, or they’re happy, on account of that damn thing you made! In science, it’s sort of general and large: You don’t know the individuals who have appreciated it directly. I understood that to sell a drawing is not to make money, but to be sure that it’s in the home of someone who really wants it; someone who would feel bad if they didn’t have it. This was interesting.”
― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

“Now that I am burned out and I'll never
accomplish anything, I've got this nice position at the university teaching
classes which I rather enjoy, and just like I read the Arabian Nights for
pleasure, I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without
worrying about any importance whatsoever.”
― Richard Feynmann

“I’m not responsible for what other people think I am able to do; I don’t have to be good because they think I’m going to be good.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out