Washington Allston Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• 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

  Artist, Doe, World

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.172, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

• The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

  Washington Allston

  Envy, Common, Praise

• Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

  Washington Allston

  Reality, Essentials, Desert

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.175, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

• 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.

  Washington Allston

  Hate, Silence, Excellence

  "Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 256-59, 1922.

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