John Ruskin Quotes - Page 13

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• The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

  John Ruskin

  Men, He Man, Cases

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.225, Courier Corporation

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• The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

  John Ruskin

  Soldier, Elements, Littles

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.288, University of Virginia Press

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• The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Past, Men

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857”, p.56

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• In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

  John Ruskin

  Painting, Eloquence, Greater

  "Modern Painters". Book by John Ruskin. Volume V, part VIII, chapter III, 1860.

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• Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

  John Ruskin

  Sarcastic, Flower, Humanity

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.94

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• Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

  John Ruskin

  Taste, Causes, Purity

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Birthday, Lying

  "The Complete Works of John Ruskin".

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• Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

  John Ruskin

  Wind, Wings, White

  John Ruskin (1903). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

  John Ruskin

  Powerful, Lakes, Sea

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.336

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• The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

  John Ruskin

  Business, Artist, Thinking

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• If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Want, Kingdoms

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 269, 1895.

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• It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.

  John Ruskin

  Power, Thinking, Iron

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1858). “The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion”, p.317

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• Architecture is the work of nations

  John Ruskin

  Architecture, Nations

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice - Volume I: The Foundations”, p.235, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Perfect, Branches

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.14

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• The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

  John Ruskin

  Imagination, Intuition, Essentials

  John Ruskin (2013). “Ruskin as Literary Critic”, p.124, Cambridge University Press

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• Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

  John Ruskin

  Air, Rivers, Mountain

  John Ruskin (1856). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 5. Of mountain beauty”, p.92

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• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Years, Literature

  Time and Tide Letter 13 (1867)

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• The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Mean, Government

  John Ruskin “Fors clavigera”

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• Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

  John Ruskin

  Evil, Darkness, Clumsiness

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• This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

  John Ruskin

  Peace, Home, Doubt

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.116, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Meaningful, Able

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• It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

  John Ruskin

  Time, Failure, Long

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.139

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• Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

  John Ruskin

  Should Have, Duty, Known

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• It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

  John Ruskin

  Uplifting, Stars, Sky

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• No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

  John Ruskin

  Simple, Architecture, Haughty

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.195, University of Virginia Press

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