John Ruskin - The art which we may call genera...

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

John Ruskin

English Writer

Born: Feb 8, 1819

Died: Jan 20, 1900

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Art, Best, Business, Word, Men, Sense, Wayside, Generally, Call, Opposed, May, Which, Grotesque, Lives

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