No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. – John Ruskin
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. – John Ruskin
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. – John Ruskin
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. – John Ruskin