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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.
Washington Allston
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Washington Allston
Age: 63 †
Born: 1779
Born: November 5
Died: 1843
Died: July 9
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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!
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Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
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The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
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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.
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Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.
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The love of gain never made a painter but it has marred many.
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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.
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Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.
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No man knows himself as an original.
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I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.
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Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
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The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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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.
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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.
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He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.
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Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.
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