Ruskin (thanks to AP): "If it is the love of nature which your - TopicsExpress



          

Ruskin (thanks to AP): "If it is the love of nature which your work represents-if, being a landscape painter, its love of the hills and the trees that moves you-if, being a figure painter it is the love of human beauty and the human soul that moves you, or the love and wonder of animals and flowers and delight in petal and in limb that move you-then the Spirit is upon you and the earth is all yours. But if, on the other hand, it is petty self-complacency in your own skill or hope of academical or popular approbation or avarice or wealth-it is quite possible that by steady industry or even fortunate chance you may win the applause, the position or the fortune that you desire-but one touch of true art you will never lay on canvass or on stone as long as you live."
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:57:34 +0000

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