It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
-- John Ruskin
   
John Ruskin   Name:
John Ruskin
Type:
Writer
Nationality:
English
Birth:
February 8, 1819
Death:
January 20, 1900
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