John Ruskin

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.

A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him.

A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him.

If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a
landscape painter, it is love of read more

If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a
landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves
you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and
human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter,
it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that
move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours,
and the fullness thereof.

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar
ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable
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Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar
ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable
as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.