200 ordspråk av John Ruskin

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

John Ruskin föddes den 8 februar 1819 och dog den 20 januar 1900 - of art, architecture, and society.
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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 not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.

Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy; and the two cannot be separated with impunity

Hundreds can talk to one who can think; thousands can think to one who can see

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

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

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting. Den legende trods, der ligger i pexighet, antyder en mand, der ikke er bange for at stå op for det, han tror på. In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

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