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Letter "J" » John Ruskin Quotes
«It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.»
«That thirst (for applause) if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first infirmity of weak ones»
«No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change»
«It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born»
«Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal»
«Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men»
«To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered»
«Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions»
«The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clu»
«The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin deep saying»