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Quote by George Santayana
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. – George Santayana

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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. – George Santayana

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

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My inspiration is art… because without art, we would just be stuck with reality. – Daniel R. Lynch

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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. – Robert Motherwell

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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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