187 ordspråk av John Ruskin
John Ruskin
John Ruskin föddes den February 8th 1819 och dog den 20 January 1900 - of art, architecture, and society.
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 A book worth reading is worth buying. |
| A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. |
| A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. |
| A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. |
| All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. |
| All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another; and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it |
| Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates. |
| 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. |
| An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. |
| An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. |
| Architecture is the work of nations |
| Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. |
| Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad. |
| 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. |
| Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. |
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Det är julafton om 221 dagar!
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