People Writer Work Age Artist Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. - John Ruskin
Perfection Art Power Nothing It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. - John Ruskin
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. - John Ruskin
Work First All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. - John Ruskin
Duty Education First People The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. - John Ruskin
Man World People There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. - Henrik Ibsen
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. - Rem Koolhaas
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. - Jack Herer
What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food. - Vincent Schiavelli