No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art

Quote by John Ruskin

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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no...

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no...

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult...

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult...

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If...

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If...

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

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

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them...

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them...

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is...

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is...

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come...

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come...

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse...

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse...

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no...

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no...

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is...

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is...

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are...

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are...

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well:...

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well:...

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

A book worth reading is worth buying.