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“Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.”

George Santayana

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Art that only focuses on itself and not on what it is meant to show or say is very sad and uninteresting.

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Art Creativity Expression Introspection Melancholy Purpose Self-absorption Subject matter Substance
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