The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin deep saying.
John Ruskin Quotes
October’s foliage yellows with his cold.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three the only quite trustworthy one is the last.
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a […]
Be sure to go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keep out of it.
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.
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
