Washington Allston Quote

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