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Washington Allston was an American painter known for his works in the Romantic style. Born on November 5, 1779, and died on July 9, 1843, Allston's paintings often depicted landscapes and mythological stories, heavily influenced by European Romanticism.

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“I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.”

Men Believe Would Be Fame Projects Shadow Excellence Substance

Book:.) (1850).

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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.”

Men Faults Idols

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“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.”

Knows Men Believe Ends Effort Originals Reports Originality Monstrous Quaint

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!”

Ifs Men World Should Whole Would Be Truth Speak Speech Agree Invisible Whole World Spiders

Book:.) (1850).

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“An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.”

Men Mind Has Beens Form Half Understood Originals Fantastic Unusual Dozen Novelty Admitting

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm.”

Men Way Sometimes Matter Hard Shows Hands Together Lying Sound Wind Kings Members Evidence Calm Blow Legs Features Knees Shakes Fierce Alarms Countenance

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“Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.”

Ifs Men Justice Negative Vanity Vain Magnanimity Never Expect

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

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

Men Wise Adventure Competition Worthy

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“No man knows himself as an original.”

Knows Men Originals Originality

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

About the Author

Born: November 5, 1779
Died: July 9, 1843
Known for: Painter
Quotes: 34

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