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In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

John Ruskin
Painting, Eloquence, Greater
"Modern Painters". Book by John Ruskin. Volume V, part VIII, chapter III, 1860.

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

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.

John Ruskin
Peculiar, Noble, Painting
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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