Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.
John RuskinSo far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.
John RuskinOur duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
John RuskinWhen I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.
John Ruskin