{"author":"John Ruskin","author_id":"John+Ruskin","total_quotes":114,"quotes":[{"text":"God alone can finish.","author":"John Ruskin","tags":["action"],"id":2646,"author_id":"John+Ruskin"},{"text":"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.","author":"John Ruskin","tags":["thoughtful","colour","minds "],"id":3184,"author_id":"John+Ruskin"},{"text":"To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.","author":"John Ruskin","tags":["enlightenment","inspiration","knowledge","light","sight","understanding"],"id":6265,"author_id":"John+Ruskin"},{"text":"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.","author":"John Ruskin","tags":["religion","soul","world "],"id":6400,"author_id":"John+Ruskin"},{"text":"Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.","author":"John Ruskin","tags":["food"],"id":7213,"author_id":"John+Ruskin"},{"text":"All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another  and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.","author":"John Ruskin","tags":["applause"],"id":11482,"author_id":"John+Ruskin"},{"text":"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.","author":"John Ruskin","tags":["work","facts","appearances "],"id":17406,"author_id":"John+Ruskin"},{"text":"Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures.","author":"John Ruskin","tags":["education","kindness","reading","wisdom","writing"],"id":17740,"author_id":"John+Ruskin"},{"text":"Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.","author":"John Ruskin","tags":["ugliness"],"id":19195,"author_id":"John+Ruskin"},{"text":"Sunshine is delicious  rain is refreshing  wind braces us up  snow is exhilarating  there is really no such thing as bad weather  only different kinds of good weather.","author":"John Ruskin","tags":["forgiveness"],"id":23433,"author_id":"John+Ruskin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":114,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}