[Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton]@TWC D-Link bookOrthodoxy CHAPTER III 40/58
If you become King of England, you give up the post of Beadle in Brompton.
If you go to Rome, you sacrifice a rich suggestive life in Wimbledon.
It is the existence of this negative or limiting side of will that makes most of the talk of the anarchic will-worshippers little better than nonsense. For instance, Mr.John Davidson tells us to have nothing to do with "Thou shalt not"; but it is surely obvious that "Thou shalt not" is only one of the necessary corollaries of "I will." "I will go to the Lord Mayor's Show, and thou shalt not stop me." Anarchism adjures us to be bold creative artists, and care for no laws or limits.
But it is impossible to be an artist and not care for laws and limits.
Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame.
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