Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
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All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
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He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in life are often the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John RuskinMen are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
John RuskinNo good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
John RuskinWhat right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
John RuskinIt 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 RuskinThe common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
John RuskinIt is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
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