What did George Santayana mean by: It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. George Santayana Copy
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Cause, Substance, 0 George Santayana
+ A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Foolishness, Isolation, Revenge, 0 George Santayana
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Creativity, Immortality, Preservation, 0 George Santayana
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Communication, Respect, Understanding, 0 George Santayana
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Character, Morality, Transformation, 0 George Santayana
It is not society’s fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Men, Society, Vocation, 0 George Santayana
A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Dream, Reflection, Speech, 0 George Santayana
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Melancholy, Self-absorption, Subjectivity, 0 George Santayana
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree. Jean-Georges Noverre Choreographer · France
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
