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Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

John Ruskin

Mean, Drawing, Communicate

John Ruskin (2015). “A Joy Forever”, p.126, John Ruskin

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Butforme, theAlps and their peoplewerealikebeautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds.

John Ruskin

Clouds, Rocks, Sight

1851-3 The Stones ofVenice, vol.i, ch.2.

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Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe deadliest.

John Ruskin

Sound, Endless, Soulless

1882 OfWagner's DieMeistersinger. Letter to Mrs Burne-Jones, 30 Jun.

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It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature.

John Ruskin

Hands, Landscape, Strange

John Ruskin (1885). “Modern Painters: pt. 5. Of mountain beauty”

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The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

John Ruskin

Law, Construction, Metallic

John Ruskin (1855). “¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.36

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Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

John Ruskin

Art, Architecture, Fine

John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.82, John Ruskin

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He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.

John Ruskin

Heart, Dust, Giving

John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.6

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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

John Ruskin

Greatness, Effort, Done

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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

Sacrifice, Simple, Skills

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Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.

John Ruskin

Angel, Men, Political

John Ruskin (1890*). “Fors Clavigera”

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It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.

John Ruskin

Eye, Perfect, Feelings

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

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There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

John Ruskin

Law, Historical, Kaleidoscope

John Ruskin (1909). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

John Ruskin

Teaching, Complaining, Literature

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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

John Ruskin

Ambition, Slavery, Whips

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If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.

John Ruskin

Children, Father, Home

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.132, University of Virginia Press

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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.

John Ruskin

Nature, Cities, Littles

John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.122, John Ruskin

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Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.

John Ruskin

Country, Sea, Bridges

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.138, University of Virginia Press

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The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

John Ruskin

Wise, Men, Wisest Man

John Ruskin, John Atkinson Hobson (1899*). “John Ruskin's works”

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It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion.

John Ruskin

Art, Children, Hero

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1867). “Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.”, p.77

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Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.

John Ruskin

Perfect, Degrees, Sin

John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.421

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God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

John Ruskin

Happiness, Men, World

John Ruskin (1906). “Pre-Raphaelitism”, p.7, Рипол Классик

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Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

John Ruskin

Perfect, Taste, Receiving

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The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

John Ruskin

Wisdom, Intelligence, Impossible

John Ruskin, Cook (1904). “Works”

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Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

John Ruskin

Life, Happiness, Strong

John Ruskin (1868). “pt. V: Of mountain beauty”, p.328

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Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

John Ruskin

Bible, Mother, Children

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Born: February 8, 1819
Died: January 20, 1900
Occupation: Art critic
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