Saturday, March 17, 2018

The Strength of National Art

[caption id="attachment_5919" align="aligncenter" width="800"]William Strickland (1788-1854). William Strickland (1788-1854)[/caption]

"Now, however checked by lightness of temperament, the instinctive love of landscape in us has this deep root, which, in your minds, I will pray you to disencumber from whatever may oppress or mortify it, and to strive to feel with all the strength of your youth that a nation is only worthy of the soil and the scenes that it has inherited, when, by all its acts and arts, it is making them more lovely for its children."

John Ruskin - Lectures on Art 1870

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