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John Ruskin Quotes

«Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | About: Art | Keywords: fine, fine art, fine arts, go together, the Hand
«Give a little to love a child, and you get a great deal back»
«When we build, let us think that we build for ever»
«In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.»
«The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | About: Virtue | Keywords: steps, strew, strewed, strewn, strews, The Path
«Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | About: Art | Keywords: seeking
«The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | About: Reward | Keywords: becomes, gets, highest, reward, toil, toiled, toiling
«Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight»
«Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.»
«It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.»

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