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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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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of mens lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. – John Ruskin

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John Ruskin
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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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The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced. – John Ruskin

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It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. Hes the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed. – Jerry Saltz

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