"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art."
― John Ruskin
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Art
More From John Ruskin
- "The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."
- "You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion."
- "The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."
More In Art
- "Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day."― John Wooden
- "What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."― John Berger
- "You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy."― William John Wills