77 Great Quotes By John Ruskin, The Distinguished Art Critic
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.
A book worth reading is worth owning.
When love and skill work together, expect a materpiece.
All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
There is no wealth but life.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
Remember that the most beautiful things in life are often the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing.
Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.
You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.
