John Ruskin Quotes about Design

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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.

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.

John Ruskin

Two, Design, Firsts

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

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.

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

John Ruskin

Character, House, Design

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

John Ruskin

Design, Vices, Virtue

John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.102

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

John Ruskin

Design, Noble, Architecture

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.13