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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.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.
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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.
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Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.
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Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.
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People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
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If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.
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The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.
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All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
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If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
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It does not matter what the whip is it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.
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Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
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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.
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In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
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Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
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... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.
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No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.
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The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.
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