Mohamed Ben-Abdedaiem

“Everything great in art is born of service. It is a free and willing bondage, for it is born of inspiration. Not from servitude or slavishly “catering to the market.” And not from any base servility before today’s bored neurotics who fill the salons, restaurants, dance clubs, and the columns of the “literati.” Not servility, but service.”
― Ivan Ilyin, Foundations of Christian Culture

“if need arises for holding converse with men, do not shun having witnesses, and let your conversation be marked with such confidence that the entry of a third person shall neither startle you nor make you blush.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“For boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“the liberty of the soul is lost through the windows of the eyes,”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible