770 Quotes by John Ruskin

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.

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

The higher a man stands, the more the word ''vulgar'' becomes unintelligible to him.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

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

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.