“It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature.”

—  John Ruskin , book Modern Painters

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

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