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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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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. – John Ruskin

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Truth
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John Ruskin
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. – John Ruskin

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work
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John Ruskin
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Mans only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. – John Ruskin

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Happiness
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I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art youre an idiot. – Steve Martin

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It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrinos work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction. – Jerry Saltz

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Early-twentieth-century abstraction is arts version of Einsteins Theory of Relativity. Its the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. – Jerry Saltz

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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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