Excerpt from Ruskin RelicsHe taught none of us to paint saleable pictures nor to write popular books. A pupil once asked him outright to do so. I hope you're not serious, he replied. To learn the artist's trade he definitely advised going to the Royal Academy schools his drawing school at Oxford was meant for an almost opposite purpose - to show the average amateur that really Fine Art is a worshipful thing, far beyond him, to be appreciated (and that alone is worth while) after a course of training, but never to be attained unless by birth-gift.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.