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" To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. "
John Ruskin
Profound
Know
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" It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. "
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" Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. "
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" Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. "
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" Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor. "
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" No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. "
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" Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. "
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" It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. "
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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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