Washington Allston Quotes About Art
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Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
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Never judge a work of art by its defects.
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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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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.
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The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
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