John Ruskin

* 8.Februer 1819 in London; † 20.Januar 1900 in Brantwood

was the leading English art critic, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.

Quotes:

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ”

“All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.”

       “The best thing in life aren’t things.”

– John Ruskin