About John Ruskin
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth.
More quotations from John Ruskin
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
More quotations tagged with “work”
People forget how fast you did a job—but they remember how well you did it.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.