The Work of John Ruskin Its Influence Upon Modern Thought And Life
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, of Mod- ern Painters ; and here also he manifests his power of epigram, which the more diffuse character of his writings would not lead us to expect. But when he does indulge in aphorisms, they are very good, as, for instance, his epigrammatic defini- tion of symmetry as contrasted with pro- portion : " Symmetry is opposition of equal quantities to each other, proportion the connection of unequal quantities with each other. " Or another : " All copyists are contemptible, but the copyist of hi...mself is the most so, for he has the worst origi- nal. " The latter epigram also has a touch of ironical humor, which he often mani- fests, as when he reviles Gaspar Poussin's picture of a storm : " Storms, indeed, as the innocent public insist on calling such abuses of nature and abortions of art as the two windy Caspars in our National Gallery, are common enough massive concretions of ink and indigo wrung and twisted very hard, apparently in a vain ef- fort to get some moisture out of them, bearing up courageously and successfully against a wind whose effects on the trees in the foreground can be accounted for only on the supposition that they are all of the India-rubber species.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
, of Mod- ern Painters ; and here also he manifests his power of epigram, which the more diffuse character of his writings would not lead us to expect. But when he does indulge in aphorisms, they are very good, as, for instance, his epigrammatic defini- tion of symmetry as contrasted with pro- portion : " Symmetry is opposition of equal quantities to each other, proportion the connection of unequal quantities with each other. " Or another : " All copyists are contemptible, but the copyist of hi...mself is the most so, for he has the worst origi- nal. " The latter epigram also has a touch of ironical humor, which he often mani- fests, as when he reviles Gaspar Poussin's picture of a storm : " Storms, indeed, as the innocent public insist on calling such abuses of nature and abortions of art as the two windy Caspars in our National Gallery, are common enough massive concretions of ink and indigo wrung and twisted very hard, apparently in a vain ef- fort to get some moisture out of them, bearing up courageously and successfully against a wind whose effects on the trees in the foreground can be accounted for only on the supposition that they are all of the India-rubber species.
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