“Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.”
John Ruskin Quotes
1819 – 1900
English art critic and social thinker.
23 quotesAbout John Ruskin on Wikipedia
“God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail.”
“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
“He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”
“You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him.”
“Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.”
“Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.”
“In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.”
“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
“A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.”
“All of one's life is a music, if one touches the notes rightly and in time.”
