John Ruskin ( 7 of 37 )
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.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live.
To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live.
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris,
Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,
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When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris,
Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,
And to Versailles, although to go so far is
A thing not quite consistent with your ease,
And--but the mass of objects quite a bar is
To my describing what the traveller sees.
You who have ever been to Paris, know;
And you who have not been to Paris--go!
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.
