"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
― John Ruskin
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Art
More From John Ruskin
- "A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money."
- "To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."
- "The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque."
More In Art
- "Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."― Chinua Achebe
- "Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."― Ambrose Bierce
- "To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art."― Charles Bukowski