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When love and skill work together, expect a materpiece.
— John Ruskin
The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes ... when he has nothing better to do.
— John Ruskin
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
— John Ruskin
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
— John Ruskin
There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
— John Ruskin
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.
— John Ruskin
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
— John Ruskin
You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
— John Ruskin
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
— John Ruskin
No human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
— John Ruskin
I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.
— John Ruskin
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
— John Ruskin
I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
— John Ruskin
Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.
— John Ruskin
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
— John Ruskin
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
— John Ruskin
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
— John Ruskin
There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
— John Ruskin
Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.
— 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
Architecture is the work of nations
— John Ruskin
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
— John Ruskin
You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them?
— John Ruskin
Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
— John Ruskin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.
— John Ruskin
Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.
— John Ruskin
God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do.
— John Ruskin
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
— John Ruskin
The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.
— John Ruskin
The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones.
— John Ruskin
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
— John Ruskin
If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
— John Ruskin
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
— John Ruskin
If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.
— John Ruskin
There is no wealth but life.
— John Ruskin
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
— John Ruskin
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.
— John Ruskin
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
— John Ruskin
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
— John Ruskin
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
— John Ruskin
You may sell your work, but not your soul.
— John Ruskin
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
— John Ruskin
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
— John Ruskin
A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.
— John Ruskin
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.
— John Ruskin
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
— John Ruskin
He who is not actively kind is cruel!
— John Ruskin
All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
— John Ruskin
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
— John Ruskin