Quotes by Ruskin, John

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. >>

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally >>

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especia >>

Quotations about Architecture

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and mor >>

All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable. >>

In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its funct >>

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Ruskin, John