John Ruskin Architect Quotations

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

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.

Architecture is the work of nations

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.