The Eagle's Nest (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Quotes

“you never will love art well, till you love what she mirrors better”
― John Ruskin, The Eagle's Nest (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art

“If you want to write a practical history of the Middle Ages, and to trace the real reasons of the things that actually happened, investigate first the history of the money; and then of the quarrels for office and territory.”
― John Ruskin, The Eagle's Nest

“to some of the best and wisest artists among ourselves, it may not be always possible to explain what pretty things they are making … the very perfection of their art is in their knowing so little about it”
― John Ruskin, The Eagle's Nest (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art