Note 13 — Chapter XIV · THE MIND AND THE HAND.
Reading edition
“In other cases, even by the strictest attention, it is not possible to give complete or strict truth in words. We could not, by any number of words, describe the color of a ribbon so as to enable a mercer to match it without seeing it. But an ‘accurate’ colorist can convey the required intelligence at once, with a tint on paper.”—“The Laws of Feesole,” Vol. I., p. 7. By John Ruskin, LL.D. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1879.