John Ruskin Quotes

Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.

John Ruskin

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• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

  

  Jack London
  • Nature
  • Without
  • Cannot

• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Genius

• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Absolute

• We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Economy

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Nature
  • Nice
  • Better

• Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Picture
  • Details
  • Filmmaking

• I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Justice

• I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Girl

• Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Good
  • Character
  • Interesting

• To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Truth
  • True
  • Afraid

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Science

• There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Life
  • Business
  • Trust

• Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Television

• There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

  

  Charles Eastman
  • Nature

• If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,Go visit it by the pale moonlight.

  

  Walter Scott
  • View
  • Fair
  • Moonlight

• The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while in the long run it will receive more recognition, than some, of what we liked so much in the beginning.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Long
  • May
  • Beginning

• There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Literature

• I've never said anything disparaging about Wally Backman and I refuse to do so now.

  

  Bob Melvin
  • Refuse
  • Disparaging

• Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Picture