John Ruskin Quotes
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
Ruskin, John. Modern Painters, Volume I. Smith, Elder and Co., 1843, p. 40.
Hastings founded a colony in Brazil for Confederates who were unwilling to live in the South during Reconstruction. He was trying to raise recruits. His book was effusive in its description of Brazil—without mentioning the yellow fever, poisonous animals, sweltering jungles and some of the less desirable elements of Brazil.
John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
