Frasi di John Ruskin
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John Ruskin è stato uno scrittore, pittore, poeta e critico d'arte britannico.

La sua interpretazione dell'arte e dell'architettura influenzarono fortemente l'estetica vittoriana ed edoardiana. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Febbraio 1819 – 20. Gennaio 1900   •   Altri nomi Джон Рескин
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John Ruskin frasi celebri

“Il miglior riconoscimento per la fatica fatta non è ciò che se ne ricava, ma ciò che si diventa grazie a essa.”

Origine: Citato in Selezione dal Reader's Digest, settembre 1997.

Frasi sull'arte di John Ruskin

John Ruskin Frasi e Citazioni

“Non insegnate ai vostri fanciulli mai nulla di cui non siete voi stessi assolutamente sicuri. Poiché è meglio che essi ignorino mille verità piuttosto che abbiano nel loro cuore una sola menzogna.”

Origine: Citato in Masal Pas Bagdadi, Dizionario affettivo, Giunti, Firenze – Milano, 2011, [//books.google.it/books?id=MS9z2uzYMNAC&pg=PA13 p. 13].

John Ruskin: Frasi in inglese

“Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.”

Notes on the General Principles of Employment for the Destitute and Criminal Classes (1868).

“We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek — not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.”

John Ruskin libro Unto This Last

Essay IV: "Ad Valorem," (p. 135 of 1881 edition http://books.google.com/books?id=59UWAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22leaving%20heaven%20to%20decide%20whether%20they%20are%20to%20rise%20in%20the%20world%22%20intitle%3AUnto%20intitle%3AThis%20intitle%3ALast%20inauthor%3AJohn%20inauthor%3ARuskin&pg=RA1-PA135#v=onepage&q=%22leaving%20heaven%20to%20decide%20whether%20they%20are%20to%20rise%20in%20the%20world%22%20intitle:Unto%20intitle:This%20intitle:Last%20inauthor:John%20inauthor:Ruskin&f=true|).
Unto This Last (1860)

“He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.”

John Ruskin libro Modern Painters

Volume I, part I, chapter II, section 9 (1843).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

The Two Paths, Lecture II: The Unity of Art, section 54 (1859).

“Without perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.”

At the annual meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1877), in Arrows of the Chase, vol. 2 (in The Complete Works of John Ruskin, vol. 23 https://books.google.it/books?hl=it&id=Gpc3AAAAYAAJ), p. 129.

“There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

Quoted by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, The Use of Life, chapter IV: "Recreation" (1894).

“We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that it divided; but the men: — Divided into mere segments of men — broken into small fragments and crumbs of life; so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail. Now it is a good and desirable thing, truly, to make many pins in a day; but if we could only see with what crystal sand their points were polished, — sand of human soul, much to be magnified before it can be discerned for what it is — we should think that there might be some loss in it also. And the great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, — that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages. And all the evil to which that cry is urging our myriads can be met only in one way: not by teaching nor preaching, for to teach them is but to show them their misery, and to preach at them, if we do nothing more than preach, is to mock at it. It can only be met by a right understanding, on the part of all classes, of what kinds of labour are good for men, raising them, and making them happy; by a determined sacrifice of such convenience or beauty, or cheapness as is to be got only by the degradation of the workman; and by equally determined demand for the products and results of healthy and ennobling labour.”

John Ruskin libro The Stones of Venice

Volume II, chapter VI, section 16.
The Stones of Venice (1853)

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

John Ruskin libro Modern Painters

Volume IV, part V, chapter III, section 22 (1856).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)

“I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.”

John Ruskin libro The Seven Lamps of Architecture

Origine: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Chapter III: The Lamp of Power, section 13.

“A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.”

The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture III: War, section 114 (1866).

“Engraving is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.”

Ariadne Florentina: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving, with Appendix, lecture I: Definition of the Art of Engraving, section 34 (1872).

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