“ The artist does not achieve equality with his work. However much the audience admire him and revere his work as a god, neither the audience nor his work capture the pain of his activity. He does not rate himself below his artwork, even if they despise it. If they revere it as a god, he feels superior to it. But it is not his equal: he does not recognize his own spirit in it. ”
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807). copy citation