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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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? – John Ruskin

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Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. – John Ruskin

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A picture is a poem without words. – Horace

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Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. Its delightful to distort size, to see something thats tiny as though it were vast. – Robert Morgan

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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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One of the best things about paintings is their silence — which prompts reflection and random reverie. – Mark Stevens

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To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them – these nature spirits who call us here – sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love. – Alex Grey

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I like computers. I like the Internet. Its a tool that can be used. But dont be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system. – Jerry Brown

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The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. – James Meade

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If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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