Tag: John Ruskin
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin
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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
John Ruskin
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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.
John Ruskin
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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
John Ruskin
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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin
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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
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John Ruskin
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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
John Ruskin
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
John Ruskin
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I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
John Ruskin