Some more Ruskin quotes

Your all probably wondering why I’ve posted so many John Ruskin and William Morris quotes. Well I’ve been writing an essay on Industrialisation and there the key members of the time who saw what was happening to society. They were the founders of the Arts and Crafts movement and I’ve become quite attached to them I suppose. If you are interested I’ll be happy to post a few chapters of the essay….. just let me know. 

Anyway here are the quotes:

John Ruskin:

“Do what you can, and confess frankly what you are unable to do; neither let your effort be shortened for fear of failure, nor your confession silenced for fear of shame.”

 

 ” Imperfection is in some way sort of essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent…. And in all things that live there are certain irregularities and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty…. To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyse vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.”