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Read & copy the quotation
“No man can read the evidence of labour who is not himself laborious, for he does not know what the work cost”
- Date
- 1870
Meaning of “No man can read the evidence of labour…”
Experience of sustained effort can deepen appreciation of the labour embedded in another person’s work because the observer has some basis for understanding its cost.
Where does it come from?
Lectures on Art, Lecture III, Project Gutenberg #19164. Ruskin is discussing how practice changes the viewer’s ability to recognize workmanship in art.
