Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
Quote by George Santayana
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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
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George Santayana Quotes
- The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
- That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
- Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
- Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
- To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
- To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
- The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
- Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
- Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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