Washington Allston Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Never judge a work of art by its defects.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Umpires, Judging

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

  Washington Allston

  Art, Doors, Genius

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.171, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

• 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.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Tyrants, Mind

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

• 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

• Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Home, Selfishness

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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