Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


"It's like the music one makes oneself. Of course I can buy better
music than I make; but to sit down at an instrument and evoke the
music oneself, with one's own fingers and brain, is an entirely
different and dearer satisfaction. Whether one tries to emulate
another's performance, or infuses the performance with one's own
personality and interpretation, it's all the same. It is soul-joy and
fulfilment.


"Take this little embroidered crust of lilies on the edge of this
flounce--there is nothing like it in the world. Mine the idea, all
mine, and mine the delight of giving form and being to the idea. There
are better ideas and better workmanship in the shops; but this is
different. It is mine. I visioned it, and I made it. And who is to say
that embroidery is not art?"

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