Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 317
ate leaves. So that the moment a touchis monotonous, it must be also false, the liberty of theleaf individually being just as essential a truth, as itsunity of growth with its companions in the radiatinggroup. It does not matter how small or apparently symmetricalthe cluster may be, nor how large… … Fig. 14. the general reader, unpractised in any of the previously recommended exer-cises, must see thatthere are wanderinglines mixed witli theradiating ones, andradiating lines withthe wild ones: andif he takes the penand tries to copyeither of these ex-amples, he will findthat neither play ofhand…
Art · Aesthetics
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