John Ruskin Quotes About Appearance

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  • Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people

    John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38
  • No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

    "Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".
  • The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

  • The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

    Stones of Venice Vol. III, Ch. II
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