John Ruskin Quotes about Greatness

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Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

John Ruskin

Greatness, Space, Mind

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

John Ruskin

Greatness, Squares, Civilization

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

John Ruskin

Greatness, Men, Gold

Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

John Ruskin

Greatness, Mind, Affectionate

John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.186

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

John Ruskin

Believe, Greatness, Men

John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.158, Cosimo, Inc.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

John Ruskin

Art, Greatness, Expression

John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.188

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

John Ruskin

Heart, Mean, Greatness

'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2