Quotes by John Ruskin

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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.

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.

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

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

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

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

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.

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

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.