Quotes from Lectures on Art — John Ruskin
1819–1900 England
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Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
Lectures on Art (1870)
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
Lectures on Art (1870)
The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, — either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.
Lectures on Art (1870)