Top 30 Washington Allston Quotes (2024 Update)

Washington Allston Quote: “Never judge a work of art by its defects.”

1. “Never judge a work of art by its defects.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.”

2. “The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “The greatest of all fools is the proud fool – who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.”

3. “The greatest of all fools is the proud fool – who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.”

4. “Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.”

5. “Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.”

6. “The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.”

7. “Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.”

8. “The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.”

9. “Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “No man knows himself as an original.”

10. “No man knows himself as an original.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.”

11. “Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “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 though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.”

12. “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 though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.”

13. “The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.”

14. “The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it, – feel it, and hate in silence.”

15. “Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it, – feel it, and hate in silence.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.”

16. “Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.”

17. “Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.”

18. “An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.”

19. “I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.”

20. “In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!”

21. “If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!”

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Washington Allston Quote: “Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.”

22. “Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.”

23. “If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.”

24. “I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.”

25. “If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.”

26. “Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.”

27. “Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.”

28. “All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.”

29. “He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.”

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Washington Allston Quote: “I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.”

30. “I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.”

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