Washington Allston Quotes

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• The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
• No man knows himself as an original.
• He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.
• Never judge a work of art by its defects.
• The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
• Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
• The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.
• The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for…
• Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject... It was the poetry of color which I felt,…

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