"He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own."
— Painting

January 1, 1970

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Anna Brownell Jameson, Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.