Washington Allston Quotes about Excellence

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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.

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.

Washington Allston

Art, Excellence, Delight

Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.167

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.

Washington Allston

Believe, Men, Excellence

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.174

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.

Washington Allston

Hate, Silence, Excellence

"Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 256-59, 1922.