Accounts Quote by John Ruskin

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

— John Ruskin

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

— John Ruskin

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…

— John Ruskin

Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always…

— John Ruskin

“Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are.”

— Roger Ebert

Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up…

— Pat Metheny

For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work…

— Ben Miller

If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things that I…

— Ken Done

All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

— Anonymous

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called…

— Sigmar Polke

I was selling bric-a-brac in Portobello and Camden Market. I love objects. But I was embarrassed by the idea of collecting, so I began…

— Cornelia Parker

One of my favorite things about art, especially at a gallery, is hearing people talk about the art. I find it quite amusing.

— Eugene Souleiman