John Ruskin Quotes

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. Art

By John Ruskin

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

By John Ruskin

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

By John Ruskin

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. Art

By John Ruskin

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. Art

By John Ruskin

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people

By John Ruskin

'He who is not actively kind is cruel!'

By John Ruskin

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

By John Ruskin

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

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Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

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Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

By John Ruskin

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

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We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.

By John Ruskin

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.

By John Ruskin

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears

By John Ruskin

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

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This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

By John Ruskin

This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

By John Ruskin

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

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There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

By John Ruskin

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

By John Ruskin

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

By John Ruskin