Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.
John RuskinTo yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.
John RuskinOrnamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
John RuskinDepend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
John Ruskin