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Quote by John Ruskin
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and

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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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. – John Ruskin

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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. – John Ruskin

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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity. – Thomas A. Edison

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