Quote by George Santayana
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. -

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. – George Santayana

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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. – George Santayana

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design
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. – George Santayana

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Beauty
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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different. – George Santayana

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Men
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I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them. – Nelson Mandela

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Art

You cant but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because its a narrative art form. – Tom Stoppard

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Art

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. – Henry Hazlitt

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Art

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. – Robert Hughes

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Art

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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Beauty… when you look into a woman’s eyes and see what is in her heart. – Nate Dircks

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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. – Abdolkarim Soroush

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Nature

You taught me all about love, all about faith, and then God turned your lessons inside out, let me see the underside of every good thing you gave me. – Margaret Blair Young, Heresies of Nature, 2002

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Perspective