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John Ruskin Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.”
— John Ruskin, Modern Painters
Tagged: Creation, Nature, Pleasure, Perspective
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
— John Ruskin, The Two Paths
Tagged: Fine Art, Art, heart, Unity, Work
“No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.”
— John Ruskin, Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Tagged: Thought, Thinking, The Size of Thoughts
“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
— John Ruskin, The Stones Of Venice
Tagged: Imperfection, expression, Exertion, Vitality
“Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.”
— John Ruskin, Time and Tide
Tagged: Labour, Sorrow, Joy
“The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.”
— John Ruskin, Modern Painters
Tagged: Infinity, God, Belief, Universe, unknown
“I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.”
— John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Tagged: Building, Greatness, Architecture, Construction
“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 as the "Pathetic Fallacy.”
— John Ruskin, Modern Painters
Tagged: Feelings, Violence, Fallacy
“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.”
— John Ruskin, Modern Painters
Tagged: human, Soul, seeing, Vision
“When we build, let us think that we build for ever.”
— John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Tagged: Building, Construction, Architecture
“In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.”
— John Ruskin, Modern Painters
Tagged: Imagination, Resist, Nature, force
“For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.”
— John Ruskin, Joy for Ever
Tagged: author, Discipline, Words, Writing, Reader
“Engraving is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.”
— John Ruskin, Ariadne Florentina- Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
Tagged: engraving, Art, scratch, Creativity
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