Quotations: John Ruskin (1819-1900)
“A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.”
“Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”
“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.”
“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”
“The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.”
“Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.”
John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin’s essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. (From Wikipedia)
