Quotes by George Santayana

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

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.