Quote by John Ruskin
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an archite

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. – John Ruskin

Other quotes by John Ruskin

It 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 Ruskin

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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. – John Ruskin

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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. – John Ruskin

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