It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. – John Ruskin
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil. – John Ruskin
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
The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this — that we manufacture everything there except men. – John Ruskin