Believing in one’s own artistic vision can outlast early derision from friends.

Evidence

Roberto taught me a valuable lesson in how important it is to have vision and to believe in yourself, no matter what the world thinks of you. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 204

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A lasting principle: trust your vision despite the world’s dismissal, because the doubter often eats their words.
• XREF: connects to: Friends frequently fail to recognize the potential of an artist on the rise. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 203; Hopeless artistic ambition can itself give a life its meaning — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 344

Related

• Dismissing an artist’s early promise can blind friends to real talent (similarity 0.84)
• Friends frequently fail to recognize the potential of an artist on the rise. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Hopeless artistic ambition can itself give a life its meaning #expands (0.75) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 344