John Ruskin

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar
ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable
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Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar
ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable
as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

October's foliage yellows with his cold.

October's foliage yellows with his cold.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what read more

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future