770 Quotes by John Ruskin

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

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

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.