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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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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

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Art holds fast when all else is lost. – German Proverb

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Art never improves, but… the material of art is never quite the same. – T. S. Eliot

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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing. – Edward Tufte

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