The Beauty-Makers

Gaston Bussiere, Isolde, 1911 (detail)

“If you do a job with the sole purpose of making money, you are absurd. Because if money becomes the goal, and it does when you work that way, you begin increasingly to confuse it with happiness — or with pleasure.”

— Alan Watts

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“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a…