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

Other quotes by George Santayana

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

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design
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. – George Santayana

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Miscellaneous
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. – George Santayana

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positive
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Other Quotes from
Art
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Ive sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. – Danny Boyle

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Art

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say Ive a call. – Sylvia Plath

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Art

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. – Simone Weil

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Art

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

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Others have done it before me. I can, too. – Corporal John Faunce

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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished. – Randy Neugebauer

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville

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