John Ruskin

"It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride."

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."

"All of one's life is a music, if one touches the notes rightly and in time."

"Of all the bête, clumsy, blundering, boggling, baboon-blooded stuff I ever saw on a human stage, that thing last night beat — as far as the acting and story went — and of all the affected, sapless, so…"

"You think it a great triumph to make the sun draw brown landscapes for you! That was also a discovery, and some day may be useful. But the sun had drawn landscapes before for you, not in brown, but in…"

"Engraving is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch."

"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. Good colouri…"

"You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm — we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish — ourse…"