Mae,

I’m very fond of the Dutch painter, Rembrandt van Rijn. My favorite is Aristotle contemplating a bust of Homer.

Rembrandt contrasts the importance of material success, fame, and power, with being true to art. Aristotle is resplendent in the finery provided by his most prestigious pupil, Alexander the Great, but whom the philosopher had failed to form spiritually. He is looking at a bust of the great blind poet Homer. The bust shows us that Homer was poor. What matters more, the material success of a failed teacher or the true art of a pauper?

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Eudaimonia