John Ruskin quotes

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. (John Ruskin)
There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey.
John Ruskin
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John Ruskin
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin
Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.
John Ruskin
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.
John Ruskin
The highest reward for a mans toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
John Ruskin
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
John Ruskin
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. (John Ruskin)
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John Ruskin
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
John Ruskin
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
John Ruskin
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John Ruskin
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. (John Ruskin)
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
John Ruskin
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John Ruskin
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
John Ruskin