Quotes by Ruskin, John

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder tha >>

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. >>

Whether for life or death, do your own work well. >>

Quotations about Imagination

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. >>

People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories. >>

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a pr >>

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

Ruskin, John