John Wesley Hardrick Quotes

John Wesley Hardrick was an American artist. He painted landscapes, still lifes and portraits.

✵ 21. September 1891 – 18. October 1968
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John Wesley Hardrick Quotes

“Life without labor is crime, and labor without art is brutality.”

John Wesley Hardrick

Said in 1914 during an exhibit at Allen Chapel in Indianapolis; cited in William Edward Taylor, Harriet Garcia Warkel and Margaret Taylor Burroughs, A Shared Heritage, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Cf. John Ruskin: "Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality," from Lectures on Art (1870), lecture III

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