John Ruskin Quotes
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
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Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
[Art]
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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.
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Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
[Genius]
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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
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God alone can finish.
[Action]
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God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do.
[Courage]
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God intends no man to live in this world without working; but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.
[Labor]
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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He is only advancing in life, whose heart is getting softer, his blood warmer, his brain quicker, and his spirit entering into living peace.
[Progress]
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
[Greatness]
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He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there is the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.
[Unkindness]
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He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
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How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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How often it is difficult to be wisely charitable - to do good without multiplying the sources of evil. To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.-It is written, not "blessed is he that feedeth the poor," but " blessed is he that considereth the poor." A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
[Charity]
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Human work must be done thoroughly and honorably because we are now men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or ever were slugs, being practically no matter.
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