Famous quotes containing the words artist and/or social:
“The artist must be in his work like God in his Creation, invisible and all-powerful, so that he is felt everywhere but not seen.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“Civilization, for every advantage she imparts, holds a hundred evils in reserve;Mthe heart burnings, the jealousies, the social rivalries, the family dissensions, and the thousand self-inflicted discomforts of refined life, which make up in units the swelling aggregate of human misery.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)