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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

Other quotes by George Santayana

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of ones life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana

Category:
Happiness
Author
George Santayana
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Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. – George Santayana

Category:
Conformity
Author
George Santayana
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Other Quotes from
Art
category

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. – Jim Morrison

Category:
Art

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isnt any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument. – Jerry Saltz

Category:
Art

Rules and models destroy genius and art. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Art

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people. – Florence Welch

Category:
Fear

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. – Eric Hoffer

Category:
Cowardice/Weakness

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. – Finley Peter Dunne

Category:
Food

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan. – Jared Diamond

Category:
Learning