On the Old Road; a Collection of Miscellaneous Essays, And Articles On Art And Literature
On the Old Road; a Collection of Miscellaneous Essays, And Articles On Art And Literature
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
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I attribute far more importance to it than they do ; — so much importance, that I should just as soon think of sitting down to teach a man how to write a Divina Commedia, or King Lear, as how to "compose," in the I. u Digitized by Google 3o6 PRE-RAPHAELITISM. true sense, a single building or picture. The marvellous stupidity of this age of lecturers is, that they do not see that what they call, " principles of composition," are mere principles of common sense in everything, as well as in pictur...es and buildings ; — A picture is to have a principal light ? Yes ; and so a dinner is to have a principal dish, and an oration a principal point, and an air of music a principal note, and every man a principal object. A picture is to have harmony of relation among its parts ? Yes ; and so is a speech well uttered, and an action well ordered, and a company well chosen, and a ragout well mixed. Composition ! As if a man were not composing every moment of his life, well or ill, and would not do it instinctively in his picture as well as elsewhere, if he could.
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