John Ruskin Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Power, Imagination

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

• The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

  John Ruskin

  Imagination, Intuition, Essentials

  John Ruskin (2013). “Ruskin as Literary Critic”, p.124, Cambridge University Press

• What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

  John Ruskin

  Imagination, Poetry, Suggestions

  'Modern Painters' (1888) vol. 3

• In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.

  John Ruskin

  Imagination, Trying, Noble

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.18

• Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

  John Ruskin

  Imagination, Healthy, Mind

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.214, University of Virginia Press

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