More From John Ruskin
- "The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in 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."
- "All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent."
More In Architecture
- "Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."― Adolf Loos
- "We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city."― Alvar Aalto
- "Information and inspiration are everywhere… history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture."― John Howe