For the lonely pioneers who do the work the rest of us shirk ask for very little. They are willing to go hungry and to slave for mean wages and to be humiliated by those who in God's own good time, in a thousand different ways, won't be allowed to hold the stirrup of their horses.
~ From R.v.R. by a gentleman named van Loon, who claims to have been a contemporary of the famous Dutch Baroque artist, Rembrandt van Rijn. Rembrandt died a pauper, his work largely unappreciated in his time, and his lack of financial success due in no small part to his inability to do anything other than work on this art. That is, he was not a good business man. He never sacrificed his vision. As far as I know, he was buried in a unmarked grave. Though they may have made one up by now, for the tourists.
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