 All art is great, and good, and true, only so far as it is distinctively the work of manhood in its entire and highest sense ; that is to say, not the work of limbs and fingers, but of the soul...  The Works of John Ruskin - Page 201by John Ruskin - 1904Full view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - 1853 - 402 pages
...as it I expressea the personality, activity, and living perception of a good and great human soul; that it may express and contain this with little help...products of those inferior powers unhelped by the soul. For as a photograph is not a work of art, though it requires certain delicate manipulations of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1873 - 578 pages
...expresses the personality, activity, and living perception of a great human soul. If it have not this, it is worthless. Worthless, I mean, as art ; it may...products of those inferior powers unhelped by the soul. In this high sense neither Photography nor Topography is art. All art as mere art is a low and... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 644 pages
...from science; and that if it have not this, if it show not the vigor, perception, and in• vention of a mighty human spirit, it is worthless. Worthless,...products of those inferior powers unhelped by the soul. For as a photograph is not a work of art, though it requires certain delicate manipulations of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 696 pages
...it in other terms, so that I may not be misunderstood. All art is great, and good, and true, only eo far as it is distinctively the work of manhood in...products of those inferior ~ powers unhelped by the soul. For as a photograph is not a work of art, though it requires certain delicate manipulations of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1888 - 576 pages
...presses the personality, activity, and living perception of a great human soul. If it have not this, it is worthless. Worthless, I mean, as art ; it may...products of those inferior powers unhelped by the soul. In this high sense neither Photography nor Topography is art. All art as mere art is a low and... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...always likest her when it is most inexplicable. 227 Ruskin : Modern Painters. Pt. i. Sec, 2, Ch. 2. All art is great, and good, and true, only so far...products of those inferior powers unhelped by the soul. 228 Buskin : The Stones of Venice. The Fall. Ch. 4. Art does not represent things falsely, but... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...church. Pr. 10 All are not soldiers that go to the wars. Pr. All are not thieves that dogs bark at. Pr. from your enemies, and keeps it to himself, ttiougham....blossoming present time spring's from the whole past, remem Л* W.7^. All balloons give up their gas in the pressure of things, and collapse in a sufficiently... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...The principle is enunciated — and it runs through a large part of our author's writings — that " all art is great, and good, and true, only so far...work of manhood in its entire and highest sense." After completing " The Stones of Venice," Ruskin entered a new field, to which we owe some of his most... | |
 | Ida Maria Street - 1901 - 484 pages
...help from execution, and less from science ; and that if it have not this, if it show not the vigor, perception, and invention of a mighty human spirit,...products of those inferior powers unhelped by the soul. For as a photograph is not a work of art, though it requires certain delicate manipulations of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 495 pages
...activity, and living perception of a good and great human soul" (p. 201), and again, "all art is great, good, and true only so far as it is distinctively...work of manhood in its entire and highest sense." In architecture, the principle has those social applications which are discussed in the second volume... | |
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