John Ruskin Quotes

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner.

It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’­—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.