“In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.”

—  John Ruskin, book Modern Painters

Volume III, part V, chapter II (1856).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)

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