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Painting with all its technica...

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

If it is the love of that whic...

If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

Sculpture is not the mere cutt...

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

The sculptor does not work for...

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

The sculptor must paint with h...

The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

Temperance, in the nobler sens...

Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

Whether we force the man's pro...

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

Do justice to your brother (yo...

Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

I desire ... to leave this one...

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

The artist's business is to fe...

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

The true work of a critic is n...

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

Always stand by form against f...

Always stand by form against force.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

Nobody cares much at heart abo...

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

I believe that the sight is a ...

I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing...

John Ruskin 780 quotes

There was always more in the w...

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

Your art is to be the praise o...

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

It is impossible to tell you t...

It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

I used to lie down on the gras...

I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

I am almost sick and giddy wit...

I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

There is a satisfactory and av...

There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.

John Ruskin 780 quotes

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