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
Name: John Ruskin Type: Writer Nationality: English Birth: February 8, 1819 Death: January 20, 1900 |