John Ruskin Quotes - Page 10

Quotes about:

• Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

  John Ruskin

  Half, Language, Dependent

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.9

  4 Copy quote

• It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Writing, Discipline

  "A Joy for Ever: And Its Price in the Market". Book by John Ruskin, note 6, 1857.

  6 Copy quote

• Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

  John Ruskin

  Truth, Pride, Childhood

  John Ruskin (1855). “Modern Painters: pt. 1. Of general principles. pt. 2 Of truth”, p.29

  4 Copy quote

• All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Greek, Visionaries

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.58, University of Virginia Press

  7 Copy quote

• All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Inspirational Life, Men

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.331

  4 Copy quote

• Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

  John Ruskin

  Cutting, Sculpture, Stones

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.157

  16 Copy quote

• The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.

  John Ruskin

  Pockets, Would Be, Use

  'Unto this Last' (1862) essay 2, 27

  4 Copy quote

• Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Children, Past

  4 Copy quote

• In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Children, Always Trying

  4 Copy quote

• Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Death, Law

  Unto This Last Essay 3 (1862)

  9 Copy quote

• Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Add, Splendor

  John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.37

  7 Copy quote

• Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice.

  John Ruskin

  Levi's, Peter, Priests

  John Ruskin (1871). “Works. (Author's Ed.)”, p.165

  4 Copy quote

• A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

  John Ruskin

  Tree, Sublime, Forests

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 3, sections 1-2 of the imaginative and theoretic faculties”, p.51

  4 Copy quote

• To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

  John Ruskin

  Death, Quality, Literature

  "Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".

  4 Copy quote

• Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

  John Ruskin

  Money, War, Evil

  John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.22

  6 Copy quote

• They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

  John Ruskin

  Furniture, Blame, Praise

  John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.340

  68 Copy quote

• I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Envy, Bird

  127 Copy quote

• Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.

  John Ruskin

  Girl, Night, Giving

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 122, 1895.

  4 Copy quote

• The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

  John Ruskin

  Weed, Fighting, Men

  5 Copy quote

• It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Giving, Educate

  4 Copy quote

• See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Teaching, Science

  5 Copy quote

• Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Hate, Hands

  4 Copy quote

• Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Beautiful

  John Ruskin, Frederick William Roe (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.69, Courier Corporation

  7 Copy quote

• They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Change, Men

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.290

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  5 Copy quote

Page 10 of 25

First

← Prev

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin