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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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London
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It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.
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Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.
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Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said it is because you were too much indulged.
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In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
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If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it if possible, try for it.
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
John Ruskin
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
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Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.
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We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.
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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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To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
John Ruskin
God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
John Ruskin
In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.
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A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect a mass of one species of tree is sublime.
John Ruskin
Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom and Peter's, the shore of Galilee and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which station in life each had to leave, with brief notice.
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The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.
John Ruskin
Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
John Ruskin
