Once-over twenty years ago, I happened to be present at a conference of vegetarians in Munich whose aim it was to celebrate their great apostle Gutzeit.
After a few impassioned speeches in his honor, the apostle told his "disciples" that a few weeks before, he had given himself permission to eat liver, a dish he had especially relished before he became a vegetarian.
Finding it rather difficult to eat, he said to himself: "You don't want to? Well then! Force yourself." The first piece he put in his mouth tasted awful, but he persisted "Force yourself!" And he swallowed it.
This confession naturally caused a great scandal; the "disciples" jumped off their seats, shouting and banging the tables like madmen.
The apostle had betrayed them!
Having finally been permitted to defend hìmself, the false apostle said calmly: "It is not such a great crime to swallow a piece of liver. The really pernicious crime would be to follow a principle outwardly when it has not ripened inwardly."
This is what I find "necessary." This law of inner freedom. This selfsame law that is truly the only reliable one in Art.
-Wassily Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art