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English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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London
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Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.
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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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Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
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Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
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He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.
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God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.
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Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
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The sculptor must paint with his chisel half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
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You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.
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A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.
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Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate drop in charity and it overflows love.
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Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
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Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.
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We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.
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High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.
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