61 quotes by John Ruskin

“Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.” — John Ruskin

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“He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.” — John Ruskin

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“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.” — John Ruskin

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“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.” — John Ruskin

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“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.” — John Ruskin

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“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.” — John Ruskin

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“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.” — John Ruskin

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“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.” — John Ruskin

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“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.” — John Ruskin

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“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.” — John Ruskin

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“All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.” — John Ruskin

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“No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.” — John Ruskin

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“It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.” — John Ruskin

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“The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.” — John Ruskin

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“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.” — John Ruskin

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“Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.” — John Ruskin

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“The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.” — John Ruskin

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“Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.” — John Ruskin

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“How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?” — John Ruskin

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“Whether for life or death, do your own work well.” — John Ruskin

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“The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.” — John Ruskin

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“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.” — John Ruskin

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“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.” — John Ruskin

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“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.” — John Ruskin

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“No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.” — John Ruskin

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