John Ruskin Quotes

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.

You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

When you see beauty anywhere, it's a reflection of yourself.

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

Beauty is objectified pleasure.

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.