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George Santayana

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

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Art works to preserve what captures our attention and holds value by transforming it into something timeless. It takes fleeting moments or ideas and reshapes them so they can endure beyond their original context.

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