John Ruskin was an English art critic at the time Victoria. He was a social thinker as well as a philanthropist. His writing styles and literary forms varied, like he writes essays, letters, poetry, and many more. He also involves in the drawing of sketches like paintings of birds, rocks, and landscapes. The main theme of his writings is to show the connections between nature, art, and society. He published his first volume of Modern Painters in the year 1843. He was also a fictional painter. He writes about various subjects like geology, ornithology, literature, political economy, education, and many more. He was the best-known art critic in the period of Romanticism. John Ruskin discovered a way of how we need to see art. His art carried a lot of meaning with values engraved in it. Ruskin greatly contributed to the theory of art. He talks about thinking of art from different angles, not just as imitating the natural world. Ruskin also believed that reading a book is easy but understanding the real meaning and what the author wants to convey to their reader is really difficult. Therefore, understanding a good book is not everyone's cup of tea.
Below are some of the famous John Ruskin Quotes.
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
Nothing is perfect in this world. But, there are things that carry perfection with imperfect nature. Imperfect things are more beautiful and lovely. There is no need to destroy your imperfection to be perfect. Imperfection is good for a change. Irregularities lead to the change in people's life.
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
This means that it is okay to lose your pride over someone you love. But don't lose someone you love over the pride. Someone you love deserves more than your pride. Pride can be achieved again but the person not.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
This means that the purest minds are of children or kids, they decide their things by looking at the color. Kids also remember their things by remembering about the colors. The purest and thoughtful mind belongs to children because they have nothing to do.
All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.
this means that some books are created for just a moment which makes you realize limited moments of your life. Some books are for stand the test of time and are classics. These books are like get to read anytime.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.
This quote means that a person who always thinks about himself is a tiny minded individual. A self-centered person doesn't amount too much to others, he doesn't want to think about others.
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.
Mother nature is extremely beautiful if we have time, inclination, and patience to watch. The way clouds formed, the process of sunrise and sunset, and many more. All the natural processes out there are much beautiful than we think of.
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
This means that the true reward is that you will become a better person for going through the process because character development, attainment of knowledge and wisdom, and gaining a sense of having done something you haven't done before will ultimately come. When you become a better person, it will be the greatest reward.
All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
This is all art or my work which displays all of my throughout the year. You need to put a lot into your work in a year to make you proud. Some arts, for example, like doodle represent a special meaning. This means that the doodle acts as the mediator between thinking too much and thinking too little.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Work with love doesn't require a lot of effort. When we love something, we don't need to think of it before doing it and not to put extra effort to make it perfect. The work with a loving heart and the intellectual mind leads to beyond perfection mode.
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A book worth reading is worth owning.
Sometimes you plan to buy a good book, but because of its high price, you didn't buy it. This leads to losing a lot of things. Sometimes, paying too much helps you get to make you better. Don't think of it before buying a good book.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
When you possess something new, it doesn't stick to just go and buy it. You need to clean them, keep them safe and many more. When we buy a new car, it is not just for driving. It also includes cleaning, getting insurance, and its maintenance. Therefore, new things want your efforts. New things introduce more responsibilities to us.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.
This means that the most beautiful things are the useless ones like the peacocks and the lilies. The worst-looking things are not of any use at all.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
We become what we dream of. So, dream high and positively and of good things. One day you will become what you think. Your real prophecy is what you think of.
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
This quote means that a pure heart seeks no bad things at all. A pure heart has true feelings and never lies to anyone. Therefore, be true with your heart. Beyond this, you need not do anything great.
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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
This means that education is not to teach about things like graphs and figures to the youth but to teach and work on your behaviour like kindness, honesty.
There is no wealth but life.
Life is full of love, kindness, joy, and admiration. Life is above all things. You can get anything from your life, whatever you want. You can also make wealth from the best of your life. The only thing is you need to work for it.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
This means that reading books changes your ways of life. When you want to read some books, take advice before reading. The best and classic books can change you, advertisement of the books doesn't make it classic. Read the book's advice by someone, not to prefer to advertise books.
What we think or what we know or what we believe is at the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
The thing which matters the most, in the end, is what we do. There are different things like what we see, think, and believe. All these affect very little on our results. But the major effect is seen by what we do exactly. People are known for their actions, not by what they think and believe.
You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
When you understand things, you will get to know the beauty of things. Insight understanding of the things doesn't feel you regretted; you get to know a lot about the things and their allurement by understanding it.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Art is something that expresses people's thoughts. People are able to express their meaning or ideal meanings of things. Every person does not understand everyone's art because it directly reflects someone's opinion or view.
