He John Ruskin knows a great deal more about my pictures than I do; he puts things into my head, and points out meanings in them that I never intended. (J. M. W. Turner)

He John Ruskin knows a great deal more about my pictures than I do; he puts things into my head, and points out meanings in them that I never intended.

J. M. W. Turner

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