Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
~ John Ruskin
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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
~ John Ruskin
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A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
~ John Ruskin
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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
~ John Ruskin
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We are to remember, in the first place, that the arrangement of colours and lines is an art analogous to the composition of music, and entirely independent of the representation of facts.
~ John Ruskin
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
~ John Ruskin