John Ruskin Quotes

The end of art is peace.

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

I'm quite calm when all is well.

In this life, we are in a constant search for inner peace. We long for it in all aspects of our lives, both personally and professionally. The truth is that we cannot have inner peace without balance. It seems that having too much or too little of anything completely throws off our balance, therefore limiting our inner peace.

With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.

The good point is when you combine excitement and calm together.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

At the still point, there the dance is.

The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

Let peace and beauty reign.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

The only antidote to chaos is peace itself.

Waight and measure take away strife.

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.