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The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9

Book by John Ruskin · 3 quotes · Men, Tenderness, Art

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The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9 Quotes

“Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people”