John Ruskin quotes

John Ruskin was a prominent English art critic, writer, and social thinker of the Victorian era. His work explored connections between art, nature, and society, influencing artists and reformers alike. He became a key voice in championing social justice and the importance of beauty in everyday life. Here are 300 of his quotes:

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. (John Ruskin)
There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey. View quote
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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. View quote
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. View quote
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Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality. View quote
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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated. View quote
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The highest reward for a mans toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. View quote
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. View quote
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. View quote
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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. View quote
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. (John Ruskin)
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. View quote
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. View quote
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. View quote
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. View quote
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. View quote
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. View quote
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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. View quote
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. View quote
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. View quote
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. (John Ruskin)
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. View quote
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When we build, let us think that we build for ever. View quote
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. View quote
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. View quote
John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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Occupation: English Writer
Born: February 8, 1819
Died: January 20, 1900
Quotes count: 300
Wikipedia: John Ruskin

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