770 Quotes by John Ruskin

I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.

All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?