Dec 11, 2019 | Wednesday Quotes
“We must teach beauty not from horror of ugliness but rather by attraction to beauty.” Charles Peguy, ‘The School Teachers’ in Basic Verities Beauty is not the private reserve of the aesthete, nor the artist or the highly cultured. It is the inheritance of all. It is...
Jan 30, 2019 | Learning How to See Again, Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“The excellence of an artist, as such, depends wholly on the refinement of perception… I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing, and I would rather teach drawing that my students may learn to love Nature, than teach the looking at Nature...
Sep 26, 2018 | Good Work, Wednesday Quotes
“Those bygone workmen did not serve, they worked. They had an absolute honor, which is honor proper. A chair rung had to be well made. That was an understood thing. That was the first thing. It wasn’t that the chair rung had to be well made for the salary or on...
Jun 27, 2018 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“Beautiful art can only be produced by people who have beautiful things about them, and leisure to look at them.” John Ruskin Beauty has a unique place in human life. One of the most fascinating aspects of beauty is how there are different kinds of it. There is the...
Jan 31, 2018 | Good Work, Wednesday Quotes
“The hand is the tool of tools.” Aristotle This post is different. Last autumn I decided I want to retrain my hand. To write. I had three reasons. First, my wife has always had beautiful handwriting, and it is simply so aesthetically pleasing. Second, I have read that...
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