John Ruskin Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

• Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

  John Ruskin

  Evil, Darkness, Clumsiness

• We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

  John Ruskin

  Passion, Men, Creation Of Man

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.109

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

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Darkness, Gazing

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.101, University of Virginia Press

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

  John Ruskin

  Journey, Light, Hiking

• The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.

  John Ruskin

  Light, Darkness, Shadow

  John Ruskin (1866). “The seven lamps of architecture”, p.142

• The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

  John Ruskin

  God, Nature, Science

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.24, University of Virginia Press

• The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

  John Ruskin

  Sea, Darkness, Infinity

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed”, p.46

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