Quote by John Ruskin
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. – John Ruskin

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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. – John Ruskin

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Religion
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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin

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architecture
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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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Art
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Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. – James Wolcott

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Art

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. – William Blake

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Art

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. – Stephen Sondheim

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Art

To be honest, I sort of feel like movie actor isnt of this time. I love it. But its a 20th-century art form. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Art

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For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. – Emile M. Cioran

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. – Aristotle

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Less is only more where more is no good. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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good

We couldnt get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs. – John Surtees

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