"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal." ― George Santayana Topic(s): Art Tags: effort More From George Santayana "Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men." "Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character." "Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth." More In Art "Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not."― Jerry Saltz "Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected."― Charles Baudelaire "Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building."― A. Bartlett Giamatti