All John Ruskin Quotes
- Don't just look at buildings ... watch them. Architecture
- An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be… Artist
- Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men. Art
- To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting… Achieve
- One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin. Anger
- There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and… Animal
- God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it. Duty
- God alone can finish. Alone
- ... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also… Among
- The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households. History
- There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder. Anybody
- Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed. Beauty
- Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Design
- The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one. Food
- Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God. Canst
- The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones. Bible
- When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic. Blood
- It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot… Happy
- God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after… Already Written
- Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every… All
- If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would… Affection
- Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour.… All
- To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. Alms
- In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end… Beat
- All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they… All