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All Quotes Art Excellence Lying Praise
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

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 legs shake with anger when all above us calm.

Washington Allston
Kings, Lying, Blow
Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.170

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, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.

Washington Allston
Eye, Color, Giving
"The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, p. 20, 2002.

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.

Washington Allston
Ignorance, Able, World

Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.

Washington Allston
Art, Tyrants, Mind
Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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.

Washington Allston
Artist, Doe, World
Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.172, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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

Washington Allston
Gains, Made, Painter
Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168

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.

Washington Allston
Believe, Men, Effort
Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.174, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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

Washington Allston
Art, Home, Selfishness
Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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

Washington Allston
Art, Doors, Genius
Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.171, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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