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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

John Ruskin
Art, Perfection, Saying Nothing
John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.352

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

John Ruskin
Perfection, May, Satisfaction
John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.19

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