John Ruskin Quote

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.


Modern painters (ed. 1929)


No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.