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John Ruskin Quotes - Page 20

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High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the

High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.

Art, Winning, Lovely

John Ruskin (1859). “Modern Painters: (pt.4) Modern painters of many things”, p.35

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

Law, Form, Shows

John Ruskin (1854). “On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...”, p.7

Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.

Ignorance, Humanity, Imperfect

John Ruskin (1873). “The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872”, p.80

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Nature, Cities, Littles

John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.122, John Ruskin

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

Christian, Education, Animal

John Ruskin (19??). “Works: Deucalion. The king of the Golden River. The eagle's nest. Arrows of the chace”

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

Wisdom, Intelligence, Impossible

John Ruskin, Cook (1904). “Works”

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

Conceited, Men, Vanity

John Ruskin (1899). “On the Old Road: A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature (Complete)”, p.170, Library of Alexandria

Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

Dirty, Pay, Clean

'Sesame and Lilies' (1865) lecture 1 'Of Kings' Treasuries' 30, note

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

Greatness, Men, Expression

John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.346

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Knowledge, Giving, Pleasure

"The Stones of Venice".

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

Design, Vices, Virtue

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

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.

Cutting, Jewels, Land

Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.

Beautiful, Death, Horse

John Ruskin (1902*). “Works”

Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.

Perfect, Way, Humans

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.183, University of Virginia Press

Butforme, theAlps and their peoplewerealikebeautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds.

Clouds, Rocks, Sight

1851-3 The Stones ofVenice, vol.i, ch.2.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

Honesty, Policy

'Time and Tide' (1867) letter 8

Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

Education, Teaching, Mean

John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.230, Cosimo, Inc.

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

Sweet, Destiny, Wind

John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.

Nature, Color, Effort

John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 1-2. Of general principles, and Of truth. 5th ed”, p.154

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Civilization, Literature, Persons

John Ruskin (1867). “Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a working man of Sunderland on the laws of work”, p.197

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

Happiness, Men, World

John Ruskin (1906). “Pre-Raphaelitism”, p.7, Рипол Классик

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

Teacher, Money, Artist

John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.363

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

Men, Liberty, Phantoms

John Ruskin (1861). “Selections from the writings of John Ruskin ... With a portrait”, p.334

All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.

Clouds, Tree, Opinion

John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters”, p.11

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

Work, Evil, Labor Day

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