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Acceptance is another problem which plagues the artist. He knows that some pretty good people enjoy [[strikethrough]] popularity and renown [[/strikethrough]]recognition during their lifetimes and that other great painters have died in poverty and oblivion. Of course that is an entirely unpredictable thing. One might almost venture to say that it is rather an indication of the cultural level of the people amongst whom he lives whether a good artist is or is not recognized during his lifetime. That Albert P. Ryder painted without recognition simply indicates that the American public of his day was too hard and narrow in its outlook to respond to the strange and unorthodox mood of his work. Einstein, when his [[strikethrough]] discoveries [[/strikethrough]] marvellous  logic failed to be accepted by the academicians, quipped, "If a spark [[strikethrough]] enters a vacu [[/strikethrough]]strikes a vacuum and fails to explode, is it the [[strikethrough]] spark's [[/strikethrough]]fault of the spark?"

I suppose that every person alive thinks and feels strongly about a number of things; about his religion (or his lack of it) about his politics; about injustices which he sees (and which perhaps others dont see) about the qualities of nature and of people. Possibly he finds great significance in ordinary things or finds some sort of beauty where other people dont find it. These are only a few of the many human truths which