All John Ruskin Quotes
- Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house. Character
- In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon… Attempt
- A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make… Art
- All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul… According
- To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led… All
- Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Anticipation
- He who is not actively kind is cruel! Actively
- High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in… Altering
- It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… Acting
- This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror,… All
- Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as… Beginning
- The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep… Age
- The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist. Chemist
- I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in… Any
- Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty. Evil
- People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic. Believer
- Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. All
- I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only. Built
- No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman. Amount
- The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things. Essential
- Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge Communicate
- In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are… Adults
- Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I… Cities
- When God shuts a door, He opens a window. Door
- 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 as… Art