You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required--and content that He… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that… — 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
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it… — John Ruskin Copy Share
All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure;… — John Ruskin Copy Share
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just… — John Ruskin Copy Share
