It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature. John Ruskin More Quotes by John Ruskin More Quotes From John Ruskin The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends. John Ruskin power spiritual animal I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. John Ruskin pain two art Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches. John Ruskin real law success Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think. John Ruskin people thinking Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged." John Ruskin three stupid mother How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? John Ruskin long book people What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end. John Ruskin quality ends However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them. John Ruskin effort pain dull It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately. John Ruskin sacrifice skills simple To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. John Ruskin wells ignorance profound Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life. John Ruskin strong happiness life If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength. John Ruskin success long years It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving. John Ruskin sacrifice giving religion 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 expression mind play Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal. John Ruskin race animal men The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past. John Ruskin men past art All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power. John Ruskin progress white snow All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye. John Ruskin eye men fall The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in. John Ruskin delight animal promise Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it. John Ruskin policy honesty
