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John Ruskin Quotes about Literature

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Money, Purpose, Literature

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Men, Literature, Vulgar

John Ruskin (1888). “Modern Painters (Complete)”, p.798, Library of Alexandria

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Flower, Literature

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.367, University of Virginia Press

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Art, Soul, Literature

John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.312, John Ruskin

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

Death, Quality, Literature

"Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

People, Literature, Enjoyment

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Ideas, Literature, Way

'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Children, Years, Literature

Time and Tide Letter 13 (1867)

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Liberty, Literature, Honorable

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

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

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Land, Taxation, Literature

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

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”

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

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Giving, Literature, Alms

John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.66, John Ruskin

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

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