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 The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded...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
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
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.