John Ruskin
John Ruskin
John Ruskinwas 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 as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and 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 The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth8 February 1819
I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.