John Ruskin

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cannot #exchanging #live #men #producing

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. ↗

— John Ruskin

#actions #intended #men #perfect #precise

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. ↗

— John Ruskin

#being #different #little #merely #modern

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. ↗

— John Ruskin

#compensate #cultivation #every #kind #make

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. ↗

— John Ruskin

#best #doing #doubt #hand #hesitation

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. ↗

— John Ruskin

#haughty #simple #which

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. ↗

— John Ruskin

#done #ever #good #pictorial #representation

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. ↗

— John Ruskin

#ever #fish #free #great #however

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. ↗

— John Ruskin

#builder #great #only #painter #person

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. ↗

— John Ruskin

#only #rightly #seeing #them #things