Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“In the purest landscape, the human subject is the immortality of the soul by the faithfulness of love.” — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him.… — 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… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Noone can do me any good by loving me, I have more love than I need or could do any good with,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“But if you can fix some conception of a true human state of life to be striven for — life, good for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to… — 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
