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John Ruskin Quotes


An English author, poet and artist, most famous for his work as art critic and social critic.
(1819 - 1900)


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A book worth reading is worth buying.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.
[Ugliness]

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

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.
[Art]

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another; and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
[Applause]

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree - not of a cloud.

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."

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.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

Anything that makes religion a second object makes it no object. - He who offers to God a second place offers him no place.
[Religion]

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.
[Architecture]

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

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
[Beauty]


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