Logo
Quote by John Ruskin
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and s

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. – John Ruskin

Other quotes by John Ruskin

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. – John Ruskin

Category:
Music
Author
John Ruskin
Read Quote

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

Category:
work
Author
John Ruskin
Read Quote

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life. – John Ruskin

Category:
Happiness
Author
John Ruskin
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. – Honore de Balzac

Category:
Art

I cant bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. – David Herbert Lawrence

Category:
Art

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. – Gertrude Stein

Category:
Art

People criticized me for my photography. They said its not art. – David Hockney

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. – Chuck Close

Category:
Experience

Its one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. Thats something I havent talked about much in my comic strips, and its certainly something Im interested in. – Lynda Barry

Category:
relationship

The soul of Antony was fastidious, and he disdained a slovenly appearance. – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907

Category:
Appearance

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. – Louis Kahn

Category:
architecture