I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing; and I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
John Ruskin Quotes
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
Do not think of your faults, still less of others’ faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
This is the true nature of home – it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
Doing is the great thing. For if, resolutely people do what is right in time they come to like doing it.
For myself, I am never satisfied that I have handled a subject properly till I have contradicted myself at least three times.
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great man any more than you can manufacture gold.
November 1st: A vermilion morning, all waves of soft scarlet, sharp at the edge, and gradated to purple. Grey scud moving slowly beneath it from the south-west, heaps of grey cumuli – between the scud and cirrus – at horizon. It issued in an exquisite day… All purple and blue in distance, and misty sunshine […]
