Logo
Quote by John Ruskin
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for idea

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. – John Ruskin

Other quotes by John Ruskin

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

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. – John Ruskin

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

They tell you that the great painters mixed blood with their pigments. It is not true; the compound used was brains. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Category:
Art

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Art

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a mans name live for thousands of years. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Art

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. – Thomas Huxley

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. – Kenneth McFarland

Category:
Kindness

The test of ones behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to ones work, relationship to sex. – Alfred Adler

Category:
Manners

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. – Oswald Chambers

Category:
Happiness

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. – Mario Cuomo

Category:
Poetry