 The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidly perfect ; part of it is...  Eclectic and Congregational Review - Seite 4781853Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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 | Daniel Belgrad - 1999 - 372 Seiten
...John Ruskin in The Stones of Venice, vol. 2 (1853): "Imperfection is in some sort essential to all we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body. ... To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality." Quoted... | |
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...demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. . . . Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent. . . . Accept this then for a universal law, that neither architecture nor any other noble work of man... | |
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