770 Quotes by John Ruskin

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

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.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.