3 John Ruskin Quotes on Vision

John Ruskin quotes on vision

26. Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

39. The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, - all in one.

77. Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases. Poets may not be 'the unacknowledged legislators of the world'; but Ruskin, like Rousseau, changed the world by a vision which has the intensity and innocence of poetry.