It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
