John Ruskin Quotes About Design
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In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.
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Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!
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In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.
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Not without design does God write the music of our lives.
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Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.
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No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
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The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.
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If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.
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