John Ruskin

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

John Ruskin

The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

John Ruskin

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

John Ruskin

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

John Ruskin

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

John Ruskin

The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

John Ruskin

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

John Ruskin

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

John Ruskin

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

John Ruskin

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

John Ruskin