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John Ruskin Quotes - Page 24

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A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

Venice, Spirit, Splendour

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

Birthday, Time, Past

John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.94

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

Art, Science, Men

John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.36

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

Art, Stones, Draws

John Ruskin (1859). “The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners”, p.46

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

Art, Science, Soul

John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.36, Cosimo, Inc.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Success, Real, Law

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Greatness, Effort, Done

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

Rose, Healthy, Gothic

John Ruskin (1854). “On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...”, p.16

God alone can finish.

John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.245

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

War, History, Humanity

If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

Angel, Thinking, Space

John Ruskin “Works: Modern painters”

To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.

Art, Mean, Men

John Ruskin (1935). “Modern Painters”

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

Discovery, Effort, Toil

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

Book, Heart, Artist

I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)

Photography, Believe, Men

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

Needs, Spirit

John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.86, John Ruskin

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Sacrifice, Simple, Skills

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Teaching, Complaining, Literature

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

Giving Up, Men, Titles

1880 Open letter to EnglishTrades Unions, 29 Sep.

Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.

Angel, Men, Political

John Ruskin (1890*). “Fors Clavigera”

The last act crowns the play.

Play, Crowns, Lasts

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.

Cadence, Hammers, Bible Verse

Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, George Allan Cate (1982). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin”, p.14, Stanford University Press

No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

Men, Sight, Stronger

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

Age, Needs, Thorough

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

Men, Wealth, One Man

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.408

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