Τρίτη 10 Απριλίου 2012

Ruskin's Ideas of Power

"Though, therefore, it is possible, by the cultivation of sensibility and judgment, to become capable of distinguishing what is beautiful, it is totally impossible, without practice and knowledge, to distinguish or feel what is excellent. The beauty or the truth of Titian's flesh-tint may be appreciated by all; but it is only to the artist, whose multiplied hours of toil have not reached the slightest resemblance of one of its tones, that its excellence is manifest. Wherever, then, difficulty has been overcome, there is excellence."

(John Ruskin: Modern Painters I)

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