John Ruskin

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition…

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults look for what is…

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake…

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple…

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of…

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that…

There is no wealth but life…

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or…

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed…

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation…

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it…

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes…

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest…

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out…

Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live…