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There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy (John Ruskin Quotes)
Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I’ve seen the Rhine with younger wave, O’er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child (John Ruskin Quotes)
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses (John Ruskin Quotes)
Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use (John Ruskin Quotes)
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is. (John Ruskin Quotes)
The proof of a thing’s being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us. (John Ruskin Quotes)
Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists (John Ruskin Quotes)
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey. (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example. (John Ruskin Quotes)
Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay? (John Ruskin Quotes)
The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive. (John Ruskin Quotes)
No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart (John Ruskin Quotes)
Of all God’s gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn (John Ruskin Quotes)
We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining. (John Ruskin Quotes)
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases (John Ruskin Quotes)
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions (John Ruskin Quotes)
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness (John Ruskin Quotes)
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back (John Ruskin Quotes)
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes (John Ruskin Quotes)
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple (John Ruskin Quotes)
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of it's diseases (John Ruskin Quotes)
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish (John Ruskin Quotes)
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition (John Ruskin Quotes)
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one (John Ruskin Quotes)
A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools (John Ruskin Quotes)