Famous quotes containing the words artist and/or social:
“The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden.... Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.”
—Octave Mirbeau (1850–1917)