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I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? (John Ruskin)
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends. View quote
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. View quote
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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. View quote
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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. View quote
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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? View quote
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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. View quote
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Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. View quote
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. View quote
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. View quote
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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. (John Ruskin)
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. View quote
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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. View quote
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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. View quote
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. View quote
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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. View quote
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. View quote
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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. View quote
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. View quote
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. View quote
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. (John Ruskin)
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. View quote
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. View quote
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. View quote
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. View quote
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