Quote by John Ruskin
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. – John Ruskin

Other quotes by John Ruskin

Do not think of your faults, still less of others faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. – John Ruskin

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good
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. – John Ruskin

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Color
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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin

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architecture
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. – W. H. Auden

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Art is the objectification of feeling. – Herman Melville

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Art

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. Ive heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. – Jerry Saltz

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I wasnt some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasnt invited to any of the cool parties. – Paul Wesley

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Ill see you in my dreams. – Gus Kahn

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