John Ruskin

John Ruskin

"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."
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"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."
John Ruskin
"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
John Ruskin
"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."
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."
John Ruskin
"Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."
John Ruskin
"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever."
John Ruskin
"No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds."
John Ruskin
"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."
John Ruskin
"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."
John Ruskin
"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
John Ruskin
"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
John Ruskin
"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."
John Ruskin
"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
"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
"All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul."
John Ruskin
"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."
John Ruskin
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
John Ruskin
"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close."
John Ruskin
"When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece."
John Ruskin
"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."
John Ruskin
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