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Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
— Washington Allston
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
— Washington Allston
Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.
— Washington Allston
The greatest of all fools is the proud fool
who is at the mercy of every fool he meets. — Washington Allston
who is at the mercy of every fool he meets. — Washington Allston
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
— Washington Allston
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
— Washington Allston
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
— Washington Allston
The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
— Washington Allston
I identify who I am by who I am.
— Maggie Wilderotter
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
— Elbert Hubbard
Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
— Washington Allston
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
— Washington Allston
Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.
— Washington Allston
Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.
— Washington Allston
In the Garden of Eden Adam saw the animals before he named them: in the traditional system, children named the animals before they saw them.1
— Alan W. Watts
He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.
— Washington Allston
Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.
— Washington Allston