John Ruskin

Person · Open Library

Born

8 February 1819

Died

20 January 1900

Works

1726

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1972

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Total plays

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John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of a wine importer who was one of the founders of the company that became Allied Domecq. He was educated at home, and entered the University of Oxford without proper qualifications for a degree. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Ruskin">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

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Quotes

• “The water which has been refused to the cry of the weary and dying is unholy, though it had been blessed by every saint in heaven; and the water which is found in the vessel of mercy is holy, though it had been defiled with corpses.”
• “No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.”
• “There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a "free" line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as "free" as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision.”
• “Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.”
• “Engraving is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.”
• “In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.”

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