John Ruskin Quotes


The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.


Citations

Ruskin, John. The Works of John Ruskin. Vol. 12, George Allen, 1904, p. 320.

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John Ruskin
John Ruskin
  • Born: February 8, 1819
  • Died: January 20, 1900
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Writer

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.