John Ruskin/middle Life 1847-1869/the Pre-raphaelites

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    I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
    John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
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    But that beginning was wiped out in fear
    The day I swung suspended with the grapes,
    And was come after like Eurydice
    And brought down safely from the upper regions;
    And the life I live now’s an extra life
    I can waste as I please on whom I please.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)