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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 No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. |
| No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art |
| No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish |
| No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. |
| No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others. |
| No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. |
| No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. |
| Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them. |
| Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. |
| Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride |
| Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends. |
| Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. |
| Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity - clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating. |
| Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. |
| One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right. |
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Proverb (1469544 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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