Washington Allston Quotes
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He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.
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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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In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.
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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.
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No man knows himself as an original.
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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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The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
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Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.
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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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The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
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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.