Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.


Modern Painters: pt. 1. Of general principles. pt. 2. Of truth (ed. 1880)

John Ruskin Quotes

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false ...

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false ...

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false ...

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false ...