Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal tr… — Quoted

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“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”

John Ruskin · Art

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John Ruskin

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

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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.

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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

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John Ruskin

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.

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