John Ruskin

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.