770 Quotes by John Ruskin

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.