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Quote by John Ruskin
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing t

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. – John Ruskin

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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. – John Ruskin

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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. – 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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It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I dont think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But its certainly worth a try. – Steven Spielberg

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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die. – William Morris

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Art is vice. You dont marry it legitimately, you rape it. – Edgar Degas

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