John Ruskin
1819 – 1900
Victorian poet, artist, critic,
social revolutionary, philosopher and conservationist
Cause of Death - influenza
John Ruskin Greatest Quotations About Art
"You can have noble art only from noble persons,
associated under laws fitted to their time and circumstances." -- John
Ruskin
"Art makes us believe what we would not otherwise have
believed." -- John Ruskin
"You must have the right moral state first, or you
cannot have the art." -- John Ruskin
"The fineness of the possible art is an index of the
moral purity and majesty of the emotion it expresses." -- John Ruskin
"The feudal and monastic buildings of Europe, and
still more the streets of her ancient cities, are vanishing like dreams:
and it is difficult to imagine the mingled envy and contempt with which
future generations will look back to us.. " -- John Ruskin
A List of John Riskins Favorite
Painters
Dante Gabriel
Rossetti
Thomas
Gainsborough
William Turner
Everett Millais
William Holman Hunt
Edward Robert Hughes
John William Godward
John William Waterhouse
Lord Frederic Leighton
Edward Burne-Jones
Walter Howell Deverell