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.

Quote by John Ruskin

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

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

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

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...

Reverence is the chief joy and power of life - reverence for that which is...

Reverence is the chief joy and power of life - reverence for that which is...

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is...

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is...

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...

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or...

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or...

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

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

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

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for...

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for...

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all...

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all...

A book worth reading is worth buying.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it...

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it...

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books...

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books...

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place,...

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place,...

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

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

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