Washington Allston

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

Quotes

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

• 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.
  • Washington Allston, as quoted in The Quotable Artist (2002) by Peggy Hadden, p. 20

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