All John Ruskin Quotes
- There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach.… All
- The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. Been
- The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did… Default
- [For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into… Able
- Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being… Angel
- Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing… Botany
- Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far… Action
- Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. Absolute
- Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health,… Adorns
- The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it. Amount
- You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as… Air
- Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by… All
- If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if,… Animal
- Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the… Cutting
- The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. Anatomist
- The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of… Actual
- Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as… Acting
- Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever. Anatomically
- Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice… Brother
- I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Clearly
- The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do. Artist
- The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him. Agree
- Always stand by form against force. Always Stand
- Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of… All
- I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing... Believe