Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
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“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”
Source: The Stones of Venice
Source: Works: Fors clavigera
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.”
“Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.”
Source: The Stones of Venice: The fall
“When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.”
“It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”
Source: Selections and Essays
“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.”
Source: Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain
“The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.”
Source: Modern Painters (Complete)
“There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“Civilization is the making of civil persons.”
Source: Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a working man of Sunderland on the laws of work
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.”
“It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.”
Source: The Stones of Venice: The sea-stories
“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”
Source: Complete Works of John Ruskin
“That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.”
Source: Unto this Last
Source: Selections and Essays
Source: The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study
Source: The Stones of Venice
“To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.”
Source: Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures
“To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.”
Source: Lectures on Architecture and Painting