Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be… — 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
Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has… — 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
God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“It is evident that the chief feeling induced by woody country is one of reverence for its antiquity. There is a quiet… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.” — 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
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
“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
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