Quotes from Washington Allston

Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

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

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

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.

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.

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.

In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

No man knows himself as an original.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.