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Quote by John Ruskin
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for idea

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. – John Ruskin

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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil. – John Ruskin

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Peace
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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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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. – John Ruskin

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Poetry
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To do a dull thing with style-now thats what I call art. – Charles Bukowski

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Doing art… anything creative, is just a spiritual thing to do. I almost feel like every comic strip I do is sort of a little prayer. And I really feel like the only thing real is love. – Patrick McDonnell, “Super Soul Short: Inside the Mind Behind Mutts,” Super Soul

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Art

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! – David Herbert Lawrence

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Art

Music is Gods gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. – Walter Savage Landor

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If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you dont know how to read, you dont know how to decide. Thats the great thing about our country – were a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. – Ray Bradbury

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Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process. – Maria Sharapova

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