I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.


The fall (ed. 1885)

John Ruskin Quotes

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque,...

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque,...

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque,...

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque,...