John Ruskin Drawing Quotations

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing...

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.