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Washington Allston Quotes

1779–1843 United States

Washington Allston (November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843) was an American poet and influential painter. He pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting.

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Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject. ... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.

The Quotable Artist (2002)

Thus falling, falling from afar,
As if some melancholy star
Had mingled with her light her sighs,
And dropped them from the skies.

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