RonPrice says:
A CONGLOMERATE

John Ruskin writes about the theory and practice as well as the condition of the artist. He says that "those who have the keenest sympathy are those who look closest and pierce deepest." Those who "are filled with the most intense passion and gentleness of sympathy," those that possess the greatest intensity and genuineness, produce the highest art. Isolation and alienation, though, are, for Ruskin, the natural conditions for the great artist. He writes about the artist, Turner, who felt no one understood or saw the meaning of his work and, like all great spirits of the nineteenth century--Scott, Keats, Byron and Shelley--died without hope. Great artists, Ruskin continues, have to work at their art all their life and, perhaps, they will become 'a vehicle for truth'—perhaps. --Ron Price with thanks to John Ruskin in Ruskin's Theories of the Sister Arts, George Landow, Internet, 4 November 2001.