"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

08 February 2019

Happy birthday, Ruskin.

Ruskin, Sketch of St. Mark's After Rain, 1846


John Ruskin was born on this day in 1819.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

John Ruskin

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