English - Writer | February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
John Ruskin
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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
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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.
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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
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