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Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
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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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I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.
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Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.
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An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.
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The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God to him who does not search it out, darkness to him who does, infinity.
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He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
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No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.
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When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
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