John Ruskin

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. ↗

— John Ruskin

#expression #imperfection #paralysis #vitality #expression

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. ↗

— John Ruskin

#pride #love

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. ↗

— John Ruskin

#beautiful things #instance #lilies #most #most beautiful

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. ↗

— John Ruskin

#psychology #self-importance #self-involvement #psychology

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. ↗

— John Ruskin

#love

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless. ↗

— John Ruskin

#inspirational #beauty

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness. ↗

— John Ruskin

#art

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately. ↗

— John Ruskin

#drawing #drawings #humor #illustrate #life

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. ↗

— John Ruskin

#life #life

There is no wealth but life. ↗

— John Ruskin

#wealth