Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of… — 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
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
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
There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. — 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
To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving… — 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
Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think,… — 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
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is… — 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
