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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

 
   
 

 

 

 

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