All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. - John Ruskin

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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. - Vladimir Nabokov quotes