Quote by John Ruskin
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and s

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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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. – John Ruskin

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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. – John Ruskin

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architecture
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. – John Ruskin

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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. – Lionel Trilling

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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I dont mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. – Charles de Lint

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. – John Ruskin

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

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