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John Ruskin Quotes - Page 4

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I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

Beautiful, Hurt, Animal

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.415, University of Virginia Press

Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.

Beautiful, Pain, Memories

John Ruskin “The Works of John Ruskin”

Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

Inspirational, Life, Wise

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

Hands, Honor, Asking

John Ruskin (1857). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.5

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Time, Strong, Anger

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Two, Design, Firsts

John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.77, John Ruskin

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Book, Medicine, Advice

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Art, Thoughtful, Color

1851-3 The Stones ofVenice, vol.ii, ch.5.

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

Quality, Ends

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

Genius, Seeing, Superiors

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

Art, Men, Giraffe

John Ruskin (1894). “Letters on Art and Literature”

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

Men, Cities, Political

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.180, University of Virginia Press

In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.

Writing, Thinking, Hymns

God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.

God, Religious, Giving

"The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation".

I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.

Believe, Sight, Drawing

John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.13, Courier Corporation

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

Confused, Mean, Understanding

John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.1

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.

Children, Ocean, Ignorance

John Ruskin (1907). “The stones of Venice”

All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.

Real, Thinking, Essentials

John Ruskin (2015). “The Ethics of the Dust”, p.116, John Ruskin

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Life, Book, Reading

Sesame and Lilies preface (1865)

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

Sunset, New Beginnings, Sunrise

John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Art”, p.97, John Ruskin

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

Average, Numbers, People

John Ruskin, Kenneth Clark (1991). “Selected writings”, Penguin Group USA

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Money, Kindness, Helping Others

John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.344

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Positive, Art, Reality

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Believe, Ornaments, Done

Seven Lamps of Architecture "The Lamp of Life" sec. 24 (1849)

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

Flower, Firsts, Delight

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