The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it. John Ruskin View this quote
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. John Ruskin
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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. John Ruskin
All of one’s life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time. John Ruskin
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it. John Ruskin
All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud. John Ruskin
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. John Ruskin
Always stand by form against force. John Ruskin
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. John Ruskin
Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use. John Ruskin
Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure. John Ruskin
English writer and art critic
February 8th, 1819 - January 20th, 1900
