Famous quotes containing the words ideal and/or transformer:
“The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth, will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die.”
—Ernst Fischer (1899–1972)