Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 1, 1866
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John Ruskin was an English art critic, writer, and social thinker, born in 1819. He is known for his significant contributions to art and architecture criticism during the Victorian era, and his writings have influenced the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Ruskin's work also extended to topics such as environmentalism, social reform, and economics.
1819–1900·lived 80 years
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 1, 1866
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.The Seven Lamps of Architecture, p. 45, 1849
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.The Crown of Wild Olive, p. 123, 1866
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.Essay III. The Veins of Wealth, Unto This Last
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.The Two Paths,, 1859
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.Selections from the writings of John Ruskin, 1861
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.Modern Painters, Vol. 1, p. 12, 1843
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.The Two Paths, Lecture II, 1859
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.Unto This Last, Essay III. The Veins of Wealth, 1862
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
That’s all 14 quotes by John Ruskin.