John Ruskin Quotes

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There is no wealth but life.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow`s chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

The highest reward for a man`s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

Do not think of your faults, still less of others` faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.