John Ruskin Quotes About Art

• Las bellas artes son aquellas en las que la mano, la cabeza y el corazón del hombre van de la mano.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Hands

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

• El arte no es un estudio de la realidad positiva, es la búsqueda de la verdad ideal.

  John Ruskin

  Positive, Art, Reality

• Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Art, Political

  "Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870".

• All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Drawing, Paper

• A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Giraffe

  John Ruskin (1894). “Letters on Art and Literature”

• All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Soul, Literature

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.312, John Ruskin

• Las mentes más puras y reflexivas son las que más aman el color.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Thoughtful, Color

  1851-3 The Stones ofVenice, vol.ii, ch.5.

• La naturaleza es siempre misteriosa y secreta en el uso de sus medios; y el arte es siempre más parecido a ella cuando es más inexplicable.

  John Ruskin

  Arte, Naturaleza, Medio

  John Ruskin (1873). "Pt. 1-2. De los principios generales y de la verdad", p.36

• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

  John Ruskin

  Arte, Libro, Escritura

  St. Mark's Rest preface (1877)

• The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

  John Ruskin

  Arte, Niños, Real

• Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Future, Men

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.171

• No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Work, Perfect

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.183, University of Virginia Press

• He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Ideas, Numbers

  Modern Painters vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2 (1843)

• Nadie que no sea un gran escultor o pintor puede ser arquitecto. Si no es escultor o pintor, sólo puede ser constructor.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Architecture, Painter

  'Lectures on Architecture and Painting' (1853) 61, addenda

• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.

  John Ruskin

  Arte, Niños, Libro

  St. Mark's Rest preface (1877)

• Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Progress, Decline

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.120

• Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Truth, Firsts

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

• I 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

  Art, Pain, Two

  Fors Clavigera Letter 79, 18 June 1877. This comment was the basis for Whistler's 1878 libel suit against Ruskin.

• All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Inspirational Life, Men

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.331

• ¿Qué significa cocina? Significa el conocimiento de Medea y de Circe,
  y de Calipso, y de Saba. Significa el conocimiento de todas las hierbas, y frutas, y
  bálsamos y especias... Significa la economía de tu bisabuela y la
  ciencia de la química moderna, y el arte francés, y la hospitalidad árabe. Significa
  Significa, en fin, que usted debe ver imperativamente que todo el mundo tiene algo
  para comer.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Nice, Food

• La ciencia se ocupa exclusivamente de las cosas como son en sí mismas; y el arte, exclusivamente de las cosas como afectan al sentido humano y al alma humana.

  John Ruskin

  Arte, ciencia, alma

  John Ruskin (2013). "Las Piedras de Venecia -: La caída", p.36, Cosimo, Inc.

• La ciencia tiene que ver con hechos, el arte con fenómenos. Para la ciencia, los fenómenos sólo son útiles en la medida en que conducen a hechos; y para el arte, los hechos sólo son útiles en la medida en que conducen a fenómenos.

  John Ruskin

  Arte, Ciencia, Uso

  John Ruskin (1897*). "Piedras de Venecia"

• La ciencia estudia las relaciones de las cosas entre sí, pero el arte sólo estudia sus relaciones con el hombre.

  John Ruskin

  Arte, Ciencia, Hombres

  John Ruskin (1853). "Las piedras de Venecia: La caída", p.36

• All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Greatness, Expression

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.188

• Se trata de una crítica superficial que definiría la poesía como confinada a producciones literarias en rima y ritmo métrico. El poema escrito es sólo poesía que habla, y la estatua, el cuadro y la composición musical son poesía que actúa. Milton y Goethe, en sus escritorios, no eran más verdaderos poetas que Fidias con su cincel, Rafael en su caballete, o el sordo Beethoven inclinado sobre su piano, inventando y produciendo acordes, que él mismo nunca podría esperar oír.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Talking, Piano

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