John Ruskin Quotes About Perfection

Quotes about: Perfection

• Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

• No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Work, Perfect

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.183, University of Virginia Press

• Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

  John Ruskin

  Music, Teacher, Order

• It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Perfection, Saying Nothing

  John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.352

• Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, May, Energy

  John Ruskin (1866). “The seven lamps of architecture”, p.166

• We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

  John Ruskin

  Sex, Equality, Giving

  John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.76, Electric Book Company

• God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.

  John Ruskin

  God, Hurt, Law

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.37

• Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, Taste, Receiving

• If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

  John Ruskin

  Perfection, May, Satisfaction

  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.19

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