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There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.
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The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
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