Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
John RuskinAn architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
John RuskinCompulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.
John RuskinDepend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
John Ruskin