Holding fast to a stubborn vision carries risk: rejection, misunderstanding, and the temptation to self-censor. Morrison’s message quietly concedes that the world may not reward the artist for integrity, yet she argues that yielding too early costs more—the loss of originality, the flattening of voice, the abandonment of the work’s real subject.
Therefore, “creative stubbornness” becomes an ethical choice as much as an aesthetic one. Many artists have faced this trade-off; the painter Vincent van Gogh sold little in his lifetime, yet his persistence left a visual language that later generations recognized as indispensable. The refusal to bend can be the very condition that makes art last. [...]
