"No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder."
― John Ruskin
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More From John Ruskin
- "The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
- "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."
- "Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."
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- "American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture."― Tom Hooper
- "I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility."― John Ruskin
- "Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"― Walt Whitman