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Paint Quotes by John Ruskin
- I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a…
- The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the…
- Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I…
- When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.
- The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of…
- I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging apot…
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