Applied Quote by Robert Hewison

“[...] what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art: to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty.”

— Alain de Botton

I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of…

— William H. Hunt

Education for all up to 18, and lifelong learning beyond. That is a vision true to Ruskin - the man, the college, and the speech.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the…

— Kenneth Clark

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

— Claude Monet

“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to…

— Jeanette Winterson

The purpose of Art Education is to teach you how to draw.

— Igor Babailov

“He considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual world. She knew, too, that he was…

— Leo Tolstoy

Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its importance, relegating…

— John A. Hiigli

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

— Amiri Baraka

Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything,…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago…

— Andrei Tarkovsky