How reversed through erring notions of the contemplative and imaginative faculties

The first of these, or the theoretic faculty, is concerned with the moral perception and appreciation of ideas of beauty. And the error respecting it is the considering and calling it æsthetic, degrading it to a mere operation of sense, or perhaps worse, of custom, so that the arts which appeal to it sink into a mere amusement, ministers to morbid sensibilities, ticklers and fanners of the soul's sleep. oil paintings for sale
The second great faculty is the imaginative, which the mind exercises in a certain mode of regarding or combining the ideas [Page 11] it has received from external nature, and the operations of which become in their turn objects of the theoretic faculty to other minds. oil painting for sale

COURT OF THE DUCAL PALACE, VENICE. 

From a drawing by Ruskin.

And the error respecting this faculty is, that its function is one of falsehood, that its operation is to exhibit things as they are not, and that in so doing it mends the works of God. oil paintings online