About John Ruskin:
John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded by a preference for plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John RuskinAll great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John RuskinThe strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
John RuskinLet every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
John Ruskin