[...] what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art…

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“Sometimes I would walk with a sense of pain, sometimes with pleasure. If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not…

— Graham Greene

“I have only a general sense of the pain, of not being able to control my body and my thoughts. All I ever wanted…

— Samantha Schutz

“The brain is the only organ that tries to make sense of its pain. It is as if the bone were trying to understand…

— Tracy Thompson

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

— Mark Frost

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Nevertheless, he finally felt the familiar calm descend on him that he recognized from his years of dealing with fucked-up, hectic situations, which allowed…

— Thomas Olde Heuvelt

In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write. Not that…

— Lynne Tillman

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” —John Ruskin”

— Marky Stein

“Then Ruskin came. I showed him our small library. He looked at it with disapproving eyes. “ Each book ”, he said gravely, “…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

[John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human…

— Robert Hewison

Education for all up to 18, and lifelong learning beyond. That is a vision true to Ruskin - the man, the college, and the speech.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

— Tom Stoppard

“There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which…

— Michael Oakeshott

“Ruskin says that anyone who expects perfection from a work of art knows nothing of works of art. This is an appealing sentence that,…

— Randall Jarrell