All John Ruskin Quotes
- 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
- What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. Emotion
- No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood. Considers
- The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its… Any
- Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul. Accounts
- Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts… Accounts
- Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man. Accounts
- A splendour of miscellaneous spirits. Miscellaneous
- Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places. Add
- Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. Book
- It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity… Every Place