Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. What is art?

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today. Man's Search For Meaning

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. Les Misérables

At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it; the other even more reasonable says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger, since it is not a man's power to provide for everything and escape from the general march of events; and that it is therefore better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second. War and Peace