Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in…

George Santayana
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four, p.107, MIT Press
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