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John Ruskin Quotes - Page 11

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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

People, Literature, Enjoyment

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

Fit

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Ideas, Literature, Way

'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.

Expression, Essentials, Looks

John Ruskin (1869). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual”, p.164

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Art, Doe, Noble

John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.93, John Ruskin

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

Animal, Men, Race

John Ruskin (1869). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual”, p.276

The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

Sea, Darkness, Infinity

John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed”, p.46

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

Time, Thinking, Feelings

"Selected writings: Edited and introduced by Peter Quennell".

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

Desire, Facts, Wealth

John Ruskin (2007). “Unto This Last”, p.90, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

Sarcastic, Thinking, Opinion

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

Spiritual, Heaven, Solitude

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1858). “The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion”, p.332

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

Dull, Proportion

John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.300

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

Beautiful, Peculiar, Way

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1860). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...”, p.254

All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

White, Snow, Progress

John Ruskin (188?). “Works: "A joy forever." The art of England. "Our fathers have told us." The laws of Fesole. The pleasures of England. Fiction fair and foul. Notes on the construction of sheepfolds. Inaugural address ... Cambridge School of Art, October 29th, 1858. The storm cloud of the nineteenth century. The opening of the Crystal Palace”

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

Life, Mistake, Errors

John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.171

I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

Sick, Obsession, Giddy

Always stand by form against force.

Form, Force

John Ruskin (1872). “The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm”, p.66

It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.

Eye, Talking, Sea

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.69, University of Virginia Press

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

Men, Special, Helping

John Ruskin (2015). “The Ethics of the Dust”, p.100, John Ruskin

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

People, Trying, Judgment

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.354, University of Virginia Press

I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

Selfish, Evil, Wickedness

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

Men, He Man, Cases

John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.225, Courier Corporation

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

Soldier, Elements, Littles

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.288, University of Virginia Press

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

Art, Past, Men

John Ruskin (1872). “The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857”, p.56

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

Painting, Eloquence, Greater

"Modern Painters". Book by John Ruskin. Volume V, part VIII, chapter III, 1860.

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