He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
Source: Speech, 1901; in A Treasury of Great American Quotations, ed. Charles Hurd, 1964.
-- John Ruskin, (Feb 8 1819-1900), English critic, author; He wrote about social problems and championed the landscape painter in The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849.