More From John Ruskin
- "We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."
- "Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."
- "Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."
More In Beauty
- "Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed."― George Henry Lewes
- "Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe."― Emily Mortimer
- "What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things."― Albrecht Durer