Sublime

He saw all this because he was a poet, though in practice a bad poet. It is too often forgotten that just as a bad man is nevertheless a man, so a bad poet is nevertheless a poet.

The most interesting dwellings in this country, as the painter knows, are the most unpretending, humble log huts and cottages of the poor commonly; it is the life of the inhabitants whose shells they are, and not any peculiarity in their surfaces merely, which makes them picturesque;

But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible.

“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” ~~William Morris

The good artist is he who can be understood; it is the bad artist who is always “misunderstood.”

Ruskin connected the wish to travel fast and far to an inability to derive appropriate pleasure from any one place

John Ruskin a dit un jour : « La plus grande chose que puisse accomplir une âme humaine dans ce monde c’est de voir quelque chose et dire ce qu’elle a vu d’une manière simple. Il y a des centaines de personnes sachant parler pour une seule sachant penser, mais il y a des milliers de personnes sachant penser pour une seule sachant voir. »

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