John Ruskin

“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”

“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”

“You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.”

“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”

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

“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.”

“There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.”

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”

“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”

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

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

“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”