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