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

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

没有什么比一门只对自身而不对主题感兴趣的艺术更贫乏和忧郁的了。

-- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳