Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which … - Kenneth Clark

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Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

Kenneth Clark

Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.

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