John Ruskin
John Ruskin
John Ruskinwas the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth8 February 1819
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.
The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.