37 Quotes by Washington Allston

Never judge a work of art by its defects

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

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

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

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

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

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

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.

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.