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

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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. – John Ruskin

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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. – John Ruskin

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Men dont and cant live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They dont live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions. – John Ruskin

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