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.
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.
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.