John Ruskin

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

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.

It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

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.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

There is no wealth but life.