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Which Quotes by John Ruskin
- The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
- Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
- Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
- The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
- It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the…
- It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
- No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
- Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
- No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
- That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
- All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize…
- It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I…
- The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the…
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