 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
 | John Ruskin - 1927 - 254 Seiten
...work none but what is bad can be perfect, in its own bad way. The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and 1 Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer: lived at Milan, Florence,... | |
 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley - 1981 - 308 Seiten
..."reached his point of failure," and imperfection was "in some sort essential to all we know of life, . . . the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change." 5 But progress and change were, as Ruskin and most Victorians realized, not necessarily synonymous... | |
 | 1979 - 434 Seiten
...at nature to learn that imperfection (savageness) is both inevitable and desirable: [I]mperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....foxglove blossom, — a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom,— is a type of the life of this world. . . . All things are literally... | |
 | Pierre Fontaney - 1989 - 276 Seiten
...but what is bad can be perfect, in its own bad way. § 25. The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. lt is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing... | |
 | Leon Chai - 1990 - 296 Seiten
...it admits simultaneously the possibility of imperfection at each level. Yet for Ruskin imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent. . . . And in all things that live there are certain irregularities and deficiencies which are not only... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ian Baucom - 1999 - 260 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Joseph C. Sitterson - 2000 - 228 Seiten
...first, "no great man ever stops working till he has reached his point of failure"; second, "imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. . . . Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidly perfect."38 1 have in effect applied Ruskin's arguments... | |
 | Amit Chaudhuri - 2003 - 246 Seiten
...wholeness, but the qualities of incompleteness, changeability, 'unfinishedness', and 'imperfection': Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidly perfect;...foxglove blossom, — a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom, — is a type of the life of this world. And in all things that live... | |
 | Inga Bryden - 1998 - 312 Seiten
...work none but what is bad can be perfect, in its own bad way.' The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....part of it is decaying, part nascent. The foxglove blossom,—a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom,—is a type of the life... | |
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