John Ruskin Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

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

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Nature, Sunset

• In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

  John Ruskin

  Power, Men, Use

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.108

• Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

  John Ruskin

  Peculiar, Noble, Painting

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.242

• If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Moving, Animal

  John Ruskin, Cook (1905). “Works”

• In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

  John Ruskin

  Painting, Eloquence, Greater

  "Modern Painters". Book by John Ruskin. Volume V, part VIII, chapter III, 1860.

• Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Secret, Excellence

  John Ruskin (1868). “Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious”, p.155

• He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Painting, Language

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.242

• I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

  John Ruskin

  Landscape Painting, Done, Literature

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.149, University of Virginia Press

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