Quotes by : John Ruskin

It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little....

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his....

God alone can finish.

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a....

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

It is evident that the chief feeling induced by woody country is one of reverence for its antiquity.....

Let us then understand at once that change or variety is as much a necessity to the human heart and brain....