3 December 2020 John Ruskin All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin 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 best sense of the word, Grotesque.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
3 December 2020 John Ruskin The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.
