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Quotes by John Ruskin
- A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.
- A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
- All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
- All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
- 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.
- 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.
- Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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