“Fine art,” said John Ruskin (1819-1900), is “that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

Many people like to quote St. Francis (1181-1226) as saying something like, “A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”

The problem is, he never said that. The trail lawyer and artist Louis Nizer did, in 1948, in his book, Between You and Me.

So I only quoted Ruskin in my letter, “Head, heart, hands.”