John Ruskin

 

1. "Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

-John Ruskin.

2. "Every increased possession loads us with new weariness."

-John Ruskin.

3. "There is no wealth but life."

-John Ruskin.

4. "To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one."

-John Ruskin.

5. "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel."

-John Ruskin.

6. "That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others."

-John Ruskin.

7. "Remember that most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance."

-John Ruskin.

8. "The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most."

-John Ruskin.

9. "An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."

-John Ruskin.

10. "In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."

-John Ruskin.

11. "Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

-John Ruskin.

12. "Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them."

-John Ruskin.

13. "Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see."

-John Ruskin.

14. "Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel."

-John Ruskin.

15. "Your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."

-John Ruskin.

16. "Books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."

-John Ruskin.

17. "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."

-John Ruskin.

18. "Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it."

-John Ruskin.  

19. "There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast."

-John Ruskin.

20. "No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser."

-John Ruskin.