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Quote by George Santayana
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. – George Santayana

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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. – George Santayana

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Painting is by nature a luminous language. – Robert Delaunay

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Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. – Jerry Saltz

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Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology. – Mason Cooley

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