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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.
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To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
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You may sell your work, but not your soul.
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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
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There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell?divine as the vale of Tempe you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light? You enterprised a railroad?you blasted its rocks away? And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.
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All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
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And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship or nobly, which is done in pride.
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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