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Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

John Ruskin
Half, Language, Dependent
John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.9

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.

John Ruskin
Expression, Dignity, Language

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

John Ruskin
Art, Painting, Language
John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.242

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