Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 294
hes, which are essential to theirbeauty. The stem does not merely send off a wild branchhere and there to take its own way, but all the branchesshare in one great fountain-like impulse; each has a curveand a path to take which fills a definite place, and eachterminates all its minor branches at its… … ah c Fig. 7. as h, in which, observe, the boughs all carry their minordivisions right out to the bounding curve; not bat thatsmaller branches, by thousands, terminate in the heart ofthe tree, but the idea and main purpose in every branchare to carry all its child branches well out to the air…
Art · Aesthetics
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