Gustav Klimt, Beethoven Frieze: Floating Genii
The yearning for happiness (symbolized by the floating female figures of the first panel).
Gustav Klimt, Beethoven Frieze: Suffering Humanity, Knight in Shining Armor
Suffering humanity (kneeling couple and girl standing behind them): their pleas to the knight in shining armor (the man in golden armor with a sword) as the external driving force, compassion and ambition (the female figures behind the knight) as internal motivation moving him to take up the fight for happiness.