John Ruskin - The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

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To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

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I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.

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