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" I do not say that the art is greatest which imitates best, because perhaps there is some art whose end is to create, and not to imitate. But I say that the art is greatest, which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatsoever, the greatest... "
Selections and Essays - Page 64
by John Ruskin - 1918 - 423 pages
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On Beauty: Three Discourses Delivered in the University of Edinburgh

John Stuart Blackie - 1858 - 300 pages
...dictum with regard to greatness in art. ' I say that the art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatsoever, the greatest...call an idea great in proportion as it is received hy a higher faculty of the mind, and as it more fully occupies, and in occupying, exercises and exalts...
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On Beauty: Three Discourses Delivered in the University of Edinburgh

John Stuart Blackie - 1858 - 296 pages
...dictum with regard to greatness in art. ' I say that the art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatsoever, the greatest number of the greutest ideas; and I call an idea great in proportion as it is received by a higher faculty of the...
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Literary Papers

Thomas Craddock - 1873 - 424 pages
...another and distinct conception. Ruskin has said that "the art is greatest which conveys to the mind the greatest number of the greatest ideas ; and I...and exalts, the faculty by which it is received."* This is 1 Modem Painters, vol. 1, cb. 2. a safe because a very indefinite definition. What is the higher...
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On Poetic Interpretation of Nature, Volume 28; Volume 381

John Campbell Shairp - 1877 - 296 pages
...largest number of great and true thoughts. And a thought or idea, as Mr. Euskin has taught us,' is great in proportion as it is received by a higher...exercises and exalts the faculty by which it is received.' There are no doubt poets who are mainly taken up with the forms and colours of things, and yet no poet...
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National Repository, Volume 4

1878 - 592 pages
...Ruskin's definition of greatness in art, namely, "that art is greatest which conveys to the mind of l he spectator, by any means whatsoever, the greatest number...greatest ideas, and I call an idea great in proportion aa it is received by a higher faculty of the mind, and as it more fully occupies, and in occupying,...
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Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Volume 11

1879 - 680 pages
...Beautiful, and possessing the wonderful power of telling it in such charming language, says : — " I call an idea great in proportion as it is received...exercises and exalts, the faculty by which it is received. * * * He is the greatest artist who has embodied in the sum of his works the greatest number of the...
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Plain Living and High Thinking; Or, Practical Self-culture: Moral, Mental ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 pages
...whose end is to create and not to imitate. But I say that the art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatsoever, the greatest...exercises and exalts the faculty by which it is received." Again, he states it to be a characteristic of great art that "it includes the largest possible quantity...
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John Ruskin: His Life and Work, Issue 68

William Smart - 1883 - 124 pages
...The first is his definition of great art : — " That art is the greatest which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatsoever, the greatest number of the greatest ideas." J " No weight, nor mass, nor beauty of execution is able to outweigh one grain or fragment of thought."...
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Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church ...

1884 - 628 pages
...' I say that the Art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatever, the greatest number of the greatest ideas ; and I...and exalts, the faculty by which it is received.' (Modern Painters, Introduction to vol. i.) Do you agree to that, Emmie ? E. Yes ; but still it seems...
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The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the ..., Volume 18

1884 - 616 pages
...' I say that the Art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatever, the greatest number of the greatest ideas ; and I...and exalts, the faculty by which it is received.' (Modern Painters, Introduction to vol. i.) Do you agree to that, Emmie 1 E. Yes ; but still it seems...
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