John Ruskin Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Nature, Sunset

• Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Hands

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

• Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

  John Ruskin

  Patience, Writing, Long

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 443), 1895.

• We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

  John Ruskin

  Two, Design, Firsts

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.77, John Ruskin

• If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

  John Ruskin

  Design, Vices, Virtue

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.102

• No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

  John Ruskin

  Design, Noble, Architecture

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.13

• Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

  John Ruskin

  Character, House, Design

• In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

  John Ruskin

  Independent, Sky, House

• In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.

  John Ruskin

  Writing, Thinking, Hymns

• Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

  John Ruskin

  Music, Writing, Design

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 443, 1895.

• The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

  John Ruskin

  Design, Weight, Majesty

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