“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
— John Ruskin
“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.”
— John Ruskin
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
— John Ruskin
“Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.”
— John Ruskin
“The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing... should be taught to every child just as writing is...”
— John Ruskin
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. ”
— John Ruskin
“When we build, let us think that we build for ever.”
— John Ruskin
“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.”
— John Ruskin
“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.”
— John Ruskin
“The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.”
— John Ruskin
“When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.”
— John Ruskin
“No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.”
— John Ruskin
“All great art is the expression of man’s delight in God’s work, not his own.”
— John Ruskin
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.”
— Mike Tyson
“We want happy paintings. Happy paintings. If you want sad things, watch the news.”
— Bob Ross
“Water’s like me. It’s lazy. Boy, it always looks for the easiest way to do things.”
— Bob Ross
“In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when I get home, the only thing I have power over is the garbage.”
— Bob Ross
“You need the dark in order to show the light.”
— Bob Ross
“If you do too much, it’s going to lose its effectiveness.”
— Bob Ross
“Go out on a limb — that’s where the fruit is.”
— Bob Ross
“Anytime you learn, you gain.”
— Bob Ross
“Unlike Truth, color is relative.”
— Dallas Nachtigall
“Sometimes “pretty close” is good enough.”
— Dallas Nachtigall
“Great painters defeat Death ;—the vile, adorn him, and adore.”
