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John Ruskin Quotes - Page 22

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Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe

Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe deadliest.

Sound, Endless, Soulless

1882 OfWagner's DieMeistersinger. Letter to Mrs Burne-Jones, 30 Jun.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

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

To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.

Love, Happiness, Men

"Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin".

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

Wise, Men, Wisest Man

John Ruskin, John Atkinson Hobson (1899*). “John Ruskin's works”

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Real, Reflection, Evil

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Landscape Painting, Done, Literature

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.149, University of Virginia Press

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

Funny, Hands, World Suffering

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Men, Perfect, Tools

John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The sea-stories”, p.161

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

Beauty, Animal, Intellectual

John Ruskin (1849). “Of ideas of beauty”, p.97

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

Idolatry, Offers, Second Place

John Ruskin (1867). “Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.”, p.76

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Photography, Done, Literature

John Ruskin (1908). “Complete Works of John Ruskin”

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

Architecture, Adaptation, Form

John Ruskin (1874). “Val D'Arno: Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art Directly Antecedent to the Florentine Year of Victories”, p.105

There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.

Ambition, Men, Two

John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.343

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Passion, Lightning, Incense

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.312, University of Virginia Press

It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

School, Mind, Architecture

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Hands, Punishment, Prevention

"Notes on the General Principles of Employment for the Destitute and Criminal Classes". Book by John Ruskin, 1868.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Beauty, Light, Shadow

John Ruskin (1888). “Modern Painters (Complete)”, p.743, Library of Alexandria

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people

Art, Stupid, Eye

John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

War, Heart, Blood

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.278, University of Virginia Press

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

Law, Construction, Metallic

John Ruskin (1855). “¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.36

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Taste, Ethics, Morality

The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 2 (1866)

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

Pride, Done, Rivalry

"The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallizaion".

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Important, Noble, Literature

John Ruskin, Frederick William Roe (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.231, Courier Corporation

God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath.

Book, Names, Benefits

John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Ambition, Slavery, Whips

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