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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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Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life. – John Ruskin

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Happiness
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced. – John Ruskin

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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of mens lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. – John Ruskin

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Art raises its head where creeds relax. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, then what do we do? – David Foster Wallace

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The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. – Edward Hopper

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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom. – Gustave Flaubert

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