It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John RuskinIt is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
John RuskinThere is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.
John RuskinI have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
John Ruskin