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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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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. – John Ruskin

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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. – John Ruskin

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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. – John Ruskin

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What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself â€” life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. – Willa Cather

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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. – Jackson Pollock

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Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. – Austin OMalley

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. – Havelock Ellis

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