Gains Quote by Washington Allston Download Open image “The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.” — Washington Allston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gains Inspirational Love Made Painter Painting
Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month… — Washington Allston Copy Share
Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the… — Washington Allston Copy Share
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share
Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I… — Ichiro Suzuki Copy Share Image
