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John Ruskin Quotes

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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather  (John Ruskin Quotes) 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  (John Ruskin Quotes) The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced  (John Ruskin Quotes) The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work  (John Ruskin Quotes) The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education  (John Ruskin Quotes) The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one  (John Ruskin Quotes) The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition  (John Ruskin Quotes) The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it  (John Ruskin Quotes) We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it  (John Ruskin Quotes) You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion  (John Ruskin Quotes) The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man  (John Ruskin Quotes) A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort  (John Ruskin Quotes) A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money  (John Ruskin Quotes) He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin  (John Ruskin Quotes) Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base  (John Ruskin Quotes) The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle  (John Ruskin Quotes) Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure  (John Ruskin Quotes) The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it  (John Ruskin Quotes) You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any  (John Ruskin Quotes) The artist’s business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do  (John Ruskin Quotes) The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him  (John Ruskin Quotes) There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace  (John Ruskin Quotes) Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone  (John Ruskin Quotes) I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out  (John Ruskin Quotes) You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye  (John Ruskin Quotes) Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it  (John Ruskin Quotes) I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw  (John Ruskin Quotes) Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way  (John Ruskin Quotes) If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours  (John Ruskin Quotes) The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it  (John Ruskin Quotes)
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