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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.


John Ruskin


#cities #dome #hills #him #little

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.


John Ruskin


#architecture #beautiful #been #dead #ever

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.


John Ruskin


#deformity #ever #heart #kind #manners

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.


John Ruskin


#neither #person #reverent #unimaginative

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.


John Ruskin


#ceases #deprived #enjoyed #just #light

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?


John Ruskin


#best #book #give #how #large

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


John Ruskin


#cannot #exchanging #live #men #producing

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.


John Ruskin


#effective #hands #instrument #last #least

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.


John Ruskin


#best #business #call #generally #grotesque

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.


John Ruskin


#also #give #nothing #thought #unless






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