John Ruskin Quotes About Appearance

Quotes about: Appearance

• No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

  John Ruskin

  Real, Heart, Mean

  "Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".

• The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

  John Ruskin

  Science, Facts, Appearance

  Stones of Venice Vol. III, Ch. II

• The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

  John Ruskin

  Selfish, Struggle, Vanity

• 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

  John Ruskin

  Art, Stupid, Eye

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

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