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.
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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
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A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.
[Ugliness]
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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
[Art]
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
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All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.
[Art]
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.
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Anything that makes religion a second object makes it no object. - He who offers to God a second place offers him no place.
[Religion]
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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]
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
[Art]
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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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