Praise Quotes by John Ruskin

10 Praise quotes by John Ruskin

Ruskin’s admiration for beauty and craftsmanship comes through in these brief passages. He balances moral seriousness with a love for the visual world.

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“All great art is praise.”

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They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

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Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and…

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The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love…

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Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or…

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When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone.…

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Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all --…

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The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it…

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So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece…

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Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose…

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“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…

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Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

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Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows…

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As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

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I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average…

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When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants…

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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper…

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It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an…

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“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and…

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And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

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It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because…

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Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it…

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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;…

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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…

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