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John Ruskin Quotes - Page 16

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It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his

It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.

Country, Men, Matter

'Unto this Last' (1862) preface, 6 (4)

Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.

Birthday, Powerful, Lying

"Selections From the Works of John Ruskin".

No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

Love, People, Needs

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

Inspirational, Kindness, Opportunity

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

Light, Add, Hue

John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.134, Courier Corporation

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Pain, Vulgarity Is, May

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.59, University of Virginia Press

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Anger, Sins Not, Would Be

In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.

Imagination, Trying, Noble

John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.18

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

Art, Men, Literature

John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.226, John Ruskin

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

Horse, Book, Thinking

John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.43, Electric Book Company

People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.

Peace, People, Heaven

John Ruskin (1905). “Selections from Writings”

All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.

Running, Sweet, Wall

John Ruskin (1860). “The Stones of Venice...”, p.58

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

Men, Thinking, Evil

John Ruskin (1851). “The Stones of Venice: The foundations”, p.44

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

Views, Noble, Gothic

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.18

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

Men, Yield, World

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

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

Heart, Winning, Helping

John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.12, John Ruskin

In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.

War, Eye, Men

John Ruskin (2014). “Praeterita”, p.380, Everyman's Library

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

Peculiar, Noble, Painting

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.242

Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.

Art, Future, Men

John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.171

God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

Heart, Great Men, Gods Will

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1865). “Precious Thoughts”, p.101

... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

Men, Hands, Tangible

John Ruskin “The stones of Venice (cont'd) Seven lamps of architecture. Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in Nov. 1853. An inquiry into some of the conditions at present affecting the study of architecture in our schools”

Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.

Flower, Men, Sea

John Ruskin (1875). “Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which My Father Knew”, p.95

There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.

Mean, Christ, Creation

John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.155

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

Book, Long, People

John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.75, Cosimo, Inc.

In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.

Beautiful, Nature, Light

John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.91

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