Washington Allston (1779–1843) was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America’s Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was well known during his lifetime for his experiments with dramatic subject matter and his bold use of light and atmospheric color.
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Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind.
—Washington Allston
Topics: Greatness, Success
Never judge a work of art by its defects.
—Washington Allston
Topics: Art
The love of gain never made a painter, but it has marred many.
—Washington Allston
Topics: Painting
In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others; for injustice allowed at home is not likely to be correct abroad.
—Washington Allston
Topics: Justice
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
Topics: Painting
The most intangible, and therefore the worst kind of a lie, is a half-truth. — This is the peculiar device of the “conscientious” detractor.
—Washington Allston
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