If it is the love of that which your work represents -- if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you -- if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you -- if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.
JOHN RUSKIN, attributed, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.
JOHN RUSKIN, attributed, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
JOHN RUSKIN, attributed, Words of Wisdom: John Ruskin
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
JOHN RUSKIN, Modern Painters
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.
